Banking on Bolshevism. Brazil’s “caviar left” spending billions to revive Cuba’s broken communist economy

... welcomed at airports by crowds and samba bands. One can get the impression that Brazilian air force has been airlifting the Cubans to Brazil as if it was the Berlin Airlift. While this is happening, thousands of immigrants, from Haiti, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other nations both legal and undocumented, have been filtering into ... ... squalid conditions in lawless camps where gambling, drugs, prostitution and disease are rife. To control the influx, Brazil and France both conduct riverine operations along the water thborder between the two nations (the French overseas department of Guiana ...