I'm Brazilian, and you've probably heard about the catastrophic floods in the south of the country. Over 100k houses have been destroyed. Millions of people impacted.

This is a complete failure of the State.

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because the state has the monopoly over infrastructure, trillions in budget, and despite similar incidents occurring every year, nothing is done.

I have not heard about it. Why is this a failure of the state?