Something is clearly wrong

In the fifteenth century, Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing America, each country would get a proportion of the new continent to be able to explore it in search of riches.

However, Portugal, in the seventeenth century disrespected the agreement by sending reconnaissance missions and colonization of land that supposedly belonged to Spain. These missions departing from Sao Paulo was composed of whites, Indians and mestizos and greatly increased the size of the Brazilian territory, as new areas were explored and colonized, crossing the inhospitable marshland and reaching to the Amazon. Currently, one of the main highways in São Paulo, and the best of Brazil, is the Bandeirantes, in homage to the explorers.

The process of miscegenation that began in Sao Paulo, which allowed the existence of the (Bandeirantes) Pioneers was one of the key factors that Brazil could expand. Later, at the end of slavery and the immigration of Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Arabic, German and Japanese, among others, the state economy began its development.

In the nineteenth century, coffee has boosted the state economy in the twentieth century and led to the industrialization of São Paulo, a state that is still the most industrialized in Brazil.

The wealth created by industrialization in some way, can then be seen as a good result from the mixture of several people who helped each of his way to Sao Paulo is what it is today.

The Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro (Firjan) has an index of development known as the Municipal Development Index (IDM in Portuguese) where it evaluate the human, economic and social development of all 5,564 Brazilian municipalities in an objective and based solely on official data for the three main development areas: Employment / Income, Education and Health. This index indicates the best places to invest in Brazil.

In 2010, the list of top one hundred municipalities, 82 were from São Paulo. This concentration of cities with a good level of development indicates a thing in Brazil: social inequality.

Considering that the Brazilian GDP is $ 2 trillion and that the country’s population is 190 million, per capita income of the country is approximately $ 10 000. However, the per capita income of the state of Sao Paulo is just over $ 18 000, already in the Brazilian Northeast, which has one third of the population, per capita income is approximately $ 7,000 (in some northeastern states, per capita income is half that).

If Sao Paulo is common to find cities with per capita income above $ 30 000 in other regions is almost impossible. The large concentration of hospitals, universities, research centers, financial centers and industries in Sao Paulo is huge. Only in the last eight years is that the situation in Northeast Brazil began to change his situation, but much remains.

Sewerage treatment, violence, education and health are huge social problems in the Brazilian Northeast and it will be necessary federal government many resources to resolve them. Besides these problems, the corruption in there is very high, since even many parts of the Northeast are controlled by colonels (regional political and economic leaders), something that makes it even harder to help these states.

The remaining hope is that the population press politicians to act properly, otherwise the Brazilian social inequality tend to increase.