The Bullet Train Always Tells the Truth: Brazil's Most Reliable Reality Check

It is early 1973 and Japan is sending 26 directors from Mitsubishi to Brasília to meet President Médici — the largest of several Japanese missions that same year. On the agenda is $1.2 billion in investments over five years across petrochemicals, shipbuilding, mining, and food. The group's leader, Chujiro Fujino, meets with Médici for fifteen minutes at the Palácio do Planalto, then tells…