Brazil''s former president offers an ''honest, personable and
engaging'' view of the country he loves and, quite unexpectedly,
came to rule "Washington Post". Fernando Henrique Cardoso
received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be
the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and
stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he''d been
handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would
be responsible for an economy that had had seven different
currencies in the previous eight years to cope with inflation that
had run at 3000 percent a year. Brazil had a habit of chewing up
finance ministers with the ferocity of an Amazon piranha. This was
just one of the turns in a largely unscripted and sometimes
unwanted political career. In exile during the harshest period of
the junta that ruled Brazil for twenty years, Cardoso started his
political life with a tentative run for the Federal State in 1978.
Within fifteen years, and despite himself, this former sociologist
was running the country. And what a country! Brazil, it is often
said is on the edge of modernity, striding with one foot in mid-air
towards the future, the other still rooted deep in a traditional
past. It is a land of sophisticated music and brutal gold-digging,
of the next global superpower and the last old-time coffee
plantations. It is gloriously ungovernable, irrepressibly
attractive, and home to the family, friends and extraordinary life
of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. This is his story and his love song
to his country.
關於作者：
Fernando Henrique Cardoso was President of the Federative
Republic of Brazil for two consecutive terms, from January 1995 to
December 2002. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1931, he is married with
three children and lives in Sao Paolo.
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