Brazil's Ambassador to ChinaAfonso Celso Ouro Preto reaffirmed that thenewrulesare evenstricterthaninternationalstandards, according to a Ministrystatement.
But Brazil has rarely been willing to find the money or the energy to do anything beyond cosmetic work in some of the smaller colonial towns, like Ouro Preto, in the country's richer southern half, which has a flourishing tourist trade.