Terra Brasilis e suas partes pudendas

Back in 2016 the US Government yielded to US athletes the right to decide whether to come or not to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This was a very diplomatic way to say “go at your own risk”. It did, however, provide the athletes with insect repellent and a special team of medical doctors, all from the US of course. In my opinion, a very wise decision, given that the Minister of Health at that time had said there was no money to fight Aedes Aegypti and the Zyka virus because of the R$20 billions cut from the federal budgeting that year. Meanwhile, the best TV ad for the combat on the mosquito was from a private beer company. Believe it or not, there were no seminaked women in it.

When Pero Vaz de Caminha first wrote to the Portuguese king back in 1500 upon arrival on the new land, he wrote of the embarassment they had for watching how native inhabitans used to show shamelessly their "partes pudendas". It seems to me that the Brazilian Government showed its partes pudendas as if it had nothing to cover itself from absolute shame. Contrary though to our native ancestors, from whom we inherited the habit of bathing twice a day and to whom we own the virtue of being a very clean people, the federal “partes pudendae” even today are definitely not a beautiful thing to watch or smell.