RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -
Aviation chaos, unpaved highways and the threat of energy rationing point to perhaps Brazil’s greatest challenge in its quest to become an economic superpower: How to upgrade its overburdened infrastructure.
The government is planning to spend billions of dollars in coming years to modernize and expand strained roads, power plants and ports in a bid to accelerate growth in South America’s largest economy.
But decades of infrastructure neglect, due to years of economic instability in the wake of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980’s, will not be quickly remedied. The strain, in some cases, is having disastrous consequences.
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