Journalist Alexander Busch has been reporting from Brazil and South America for 18 years.
Brazil is underestimated today like almost no other country. In terms of land area and population (191 million), it is the fifth-largest nation on earth. It takes sixth place in the table of the world's largest economies. One by one, Brazil's tremendously dynamic economic growth is dismantling our stereotypes of football, Copa Cabana, samba and carnival.
