Journalist Luiz Carlos Prestes Filho, author of books that deal with culture, carnival and gaming, among them “The biggest Spectacle on Earth – 30 Years of the Sambadrome” and “Theory of Probability in Gaming”, has just released “Brasil, Você está Duro Porque Quer” (Brazil, You're Broken Because You Want), a collection of interviews he conducted in 2021 with several personalities linked to the Brazilian gaming sector. GMB published the interviews and now, organized into a book, will soon be launched at autograph nights in the main Brazilian capitals.
Before that, the author will travel through Minas Gerais cities that historically housed casinos and marked the golden age of activity in Brazil in the 1940s until the ban on gaming in the country. Among these cities, Prestes will be in Caxambu, Lambari, São Lourenço and Araxá. He will take all his progressive and modern vision on the activity so that his presentations echo in the Federal Senate, where Bill 442/91, approved by the Chamber of Deputies, will be analyzed.
Luiz Carlos Prestes comments that over the years he has always defended the regulation of betting games, managed by the private sector in Brazil. “The launch of the book is very timely, since a few days ago we had the approval by the Chamber of Deputies of the bill that legalizes all types of games, such as casinos, bingos, online and jogo do bicho,” he comments.
The book features 31 interviews conducted by Prestes with politicians, businessmen, lawyers and artists about gaming as a recreational activity and at the same time a business capable of generating hundreds of thousands of formal jobs and billions of reais in taxes.
The author points out that the interviews had great repercussion, including their reproduction on GMB, and that this led him to publish them in book form, condensing in a volume of 140 pages the deepest reflections on the gaming sector.
National and foreign personalities mark Prestes' new publication, with approaches ranging from the political and tax issue on the activity in Brazil to examples of what the operation of gaming represents for business and the economy globally.
One of Prestes's interviewees and who occupies her space in the book is Liliana Costa, manager for Latin America at Clarion Events, who talks about the opportunities for Brazil in the gaming market. Deep knowledge of the activity and its global reach, Liliana says that “the book is an encyclopedia of knowledge and history told by excellent literature by Professor Luiz Prestes Filho, one of the people I am most happy to have met one day.”
In the same line of reasoning is the lawyer and partner of the FYMSA office, Luiz Felipe Maia. “The book is a valuable and timely contribution to the debate on the legalization of gaming. It was an honor to have received the invitation from Luiz Carlos Prestes to participate in such a relevant work!,” he describes.
According to him, the author “deserves all the admiration and gratitude of all who, like him, fight for Brazil to come out of obscurantism and, finally, regulate betting activities.”
Bruno Omori, president of IDT-CEMA (Institute for Development, Tourism, Culture, Sport and Environment), says that “it was a great honor to participate in the book by Luiz Carlos Prestes as one of the Brazilian authorities who believe in approving gaming as an economic and social driver. Congratulations to the organizer of the work and to everyone who contributed to this successful publication."
All of them demonstrated, with their arguments in the interviews, the importance and seriousness of the gaming activity, both from the point of view of generating jobs and taxes and of attracting tourists to the jurisdictions where the activity is regulated.
In the final chapter in which he explains the reasons that led him to publish the book, entitled “A decisive step for Brazil”, the author transcribes part of the interview carried out with journalist Gildo Mazza, from Games Magazine Brasil, before the final edition of the collection.
The publication of the 140-page book was supported by Jornal Atual and Abrabincs – Brazilian Association of Bingos, Casinos and Similar, which signs the epilogue. Among the chapters, the following stand out:
The launch dates in the main Brazilian capitals are still being scheduled.
Source: Exclusive GMB
