By Luiz Felipe Silva Seen from the air, the BR-163 highway cutting through the city that proudly calls itself the National Agribusiness Capital reflects an abrupt socioeconomic divide — as if it were a border dividing two opposing realities like the wall that separates Israel from Palestine. The robust economy on the west side of the highway is evidenced by block after block of luxury-brand retail shops, streets filled with pickup trucks costing hundreds of thousands of reais and ever-increasing numbers of luxury homes and gated communities. Meanwhile, on the east side, cars made decades ago c…