“IMMENSITY” in the Latin American context means only one thing: Brazil. Its 8.5 million square kilometers of land area occupies about half of South America and is the fifth-largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, China, and the United States. It has four time zones and 49 major ecosystems, including the Amazon Basin. Its population of over 213 million people dwarfs the second most populous Latin American nation, Mexico, and its 131.7 million people. The giant landmass gave Brazil the luxury of relocating its capital from the cosmopolitan and already congested Rio de Janeiro to newly created Brasilia —...