I have lived in a country with a form of Economic Populism for the past twenty years. In that time I have learned through personal experience how this type of economy and its related government work, or perhaps I should say - don't work. I've seen with my own eyes people who have died waiting for proper and promised free health care. One of my own sons has a crooked little finger, the result of a poorly set bone in a public clinic. Below is the story of trying to find help for a new born baby in the city of Fortaleza sometime in the year 2000. A recent convert in our congregation went to the local maternity hospital to have her second baby sometime in the summer of 2000. Just after the birth of the baby I went to visit and found things in chaos. The baby was born with both of its little legs broken. The birth had been very prolonged and difficult. The mother had suffered quite a bit and there had been a lot of tearing. Final...
Just a mama trying to bloom where she is planted in the dry Northeast of Brazil.