The fact that there are said to be roughly as many helicopter taxis in São Paulo as there are helicopters in all of Germany is due, if nothing else, to your city having gained a reputation for being faced with frequent traffic jams. Logistics experts say that deliveries of goods in Brazil take twice as long over the same distance as in China.
Whether or not the announced government investment programme to modernise the road and rail networks will lead to substantial improvements is something that you are in a much better position to judge than I. I only wanted to make clear that the direct effects of the euro-area crisis on economic activity in Brazil are fairly small and that the causes of the current weakness in growth are primarily to be found at home.