São Paulo alone manages to rival New York City in scale, so it's absurd to call it "third world".

Significant parts of Brazil lag behind in terms of development, but this is true in the US as well.

Sure but all the countries you mentioned are rife with corruption. Fuck those countries. I stand by my statement then: they are 3Rd world with respect to how they treat humans.

Turkey is a corruption horror show. Mexicos death rate due to cartels is astronomical compared to every other country on earth. Cuba is still driving cars from the fifties and doesn't even have Internet, yet it houses our worst torture center that we know of (yes, all that is the fault of the US CIA) and Iran was an overthrown democracy (CIA again, thanks George) - but you cannot argue that they are not "3rd world" - we fucking kept them that way to exploit them.

Brazil is a poor third world nation. It might be developing fast but still far from reaching middle income levels.