Brazil's economy rapidly deteriorated after the first energy crisis in the 1970s, and the overseas Chinese saw all the fruits of 20 years 'hard work eaten away in a decade by economic decline, inflation and deteriorating social order.
在一九七四年第一次能源危機後，巴西的政經情況迅速惡化，許多僑胞廿多年來辛勤工作的成果，在十幾年間一點一滴地被經濟衰退、通貨膨脹及治安惡化蠶食淨盡。