Brazil is depicted as a land of global superlatives boasting the best football the largest rainforest and the worlds worst social and economic inequality. Its vibrant culture is best known for Carnival and samba and attracts thousands of visitors each year. The Carnival capital of Rio also showcases Brazils contrasts as the shanty towns of the dispossesed cling to the mountainsides overlooking the beach playgrounds of the rich. Brazil In Focus is an authorative and uptodate guide to the giant