When Dilma Roussef, current president of the BRICS development bank, was in jail and in between sessions of torture during the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 60`s, she studied economics fiercely. Some decades later, she became a state minister and, later, the president of Brazil, my country. So what you’re saying is right: we should strive to build patiently over the long term, no matter how unfavorable the circumstances are.