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Justice in Brasil is often very, very slow.
State and local governments across Brasil owe their citizens about $50 billion USD in court issued IOUs...called"precatorios."
An attorney there says that "Brasil has pretensions of being a part of the developed world" but allows these payments to be delayed...sometimes for decades.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/brazil/090622/precatorios
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