When Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral “discovered” Brazil in 1500, it was an accident — he was blown off course by a storm. Now, the inter-national business community actively seeks out the country’s rocketing economy — and Cabral is depicted on the country’s one cent coin. Modern Brazil, on the face of it, sometimes seems at odds with the images we all know of samba, carnival, beaches, favellas. So, we sent acclaimed Mexican photogra-pher Carlos Cazalis, who lives in São Paolo, to show us the modern Brazil. The result, shown here and throughout this supplement, is a country and a people of extraordinary contrasts.