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Consider the Economist article: "Wild Horses" April 20th 2011 (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2011/04/20/wild-horses) and other sources to comprehensively answer the following question.
a) According to the theory of the International Trilemma, widely followed by the IMF up until recently, the Brazilian economy should NOT have been facing those challenges in 2011. Why? What does the theory imply?
b) Why was the international Trilemma wrong?
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