Discussion on Socialism in Brazil

You can't take the Cuban system, put it on a ship,

bring it to Brazil and—

decree number one: Cuban-style socialism. It won't work.

Or bring in the Soviet system, you know, by plane,

arrive here and decree

socialism the, the Swedish way won't work either.

I think it will be

lengthy, it will be, you know, painful, but

it will be along the lines for which the Brazilian people

are prepared to implement it.

I believe in that, I work for that.

I think it's difficult, I think it's difficult, look, I'm so pessimistic,

that I think it's difficult, even if we had a revolution in this country today,

overthrew the government,

for us to implement this socialism, how long would it take?

Thirty, forty, fifty years to implement it in such a,

such a, of so many things

like Brazil. That's why, no one needs to be so afraid because it won't

happen that soon, okay?

We need to plant now to harvest in a few years.

That's what I'm betting on, and that's what I work for.