Belo Horizonte, Brazil

After 100 kilometers, in the heart of the city of Belo Horizonte, the Brazilian middle class begins each other's toes in a crowded shopping mall. Every day here is up to 66,000 visitors. In one shoe store shopping mall works a 36-year-old saleswoman Aparecida Nasimento. She has two daughters, 12-year-old Kalina and 19-year-old Natielya. Aparecida earns in a month from 800 to 1,000 Brazilian reais (approximately 355 - 444 euros). In addition, she receives child support from the father of her children on 100 euros a month. A modest two-bedroom apartment in Kontazhene Aparecida, a suburb of Belo Horizonte, furnished shabby furniture. Every day she gets up at six in the morning to cook lunch for children, which they then razogreyut in the microwave. At 7.00 sits on a bus to catch to work at nine. If Aparecida late at least minuty, it can be fired. Aparecida - a fanatical supporter of former President Lula da Silva. She was very upset that he could not run for a third term. As a former president Aparecida graduated only five years of schooling. As a former president, began working in the age of 12. Moreover, it is not less than the president likes to talk about self-esteem - autoeStimo. During his presidency, Lula da Silva has managed to really improve the self esteem of their fellow citizens, using any pretext, whether it be solemnly launched an oil tanker or a victory for the right to host the summer Olympics 201b of the year. "I implore you: replace the inferiority complex of delusions of grandeur!" - The president said during one of his speeches. Aparecida followed the advice. To improve self-esteem she did breast augmentation. "Impressive looks, my main asset," - she says. Without it, I can not be a good saleswoman. " The second step of self-assertion became the hire purchase car Renault 60 payments of about 200 euros each. Sometimes unforeseen breaches in the family budget =. And then the saleswoman with her daughters do not have enough to eat. Well, that's life, - says Aparecida. But the car I had no one can take away. " Representatives of the Brazilian middle class have yet to learn to properly handle money. Many of them have escaped from poverty not because of his own enterprise, but thanks to the most ambitious social program in the world: the state pays benefits of 46 million Brazilians, almost every fourth inhabitant of the country. And although President Lula da Silva, solemnly announced that the subsidized program has to defeat hunger, he had not solved the problem of inequality. Three-quarters of income in the country still accounts for ten percent of the rich. And the current boom enriches mainly the rich.