Brazil: Political Crisis and Hunger for Change?

... dollars that had been illegally transferred; 400 million dollars are still frozen in Swiss banks pending the completion of the audit of Petrobras and its contractors. Economic background of corruption scandals REUTERS/Nacho Doce/Pixstream Eric Ehrmann: Protests Test Resilience of Brazil's Democracy The start of Dilma Rousseff’s second mandate has coincided with a deterioration in the economic situation characterized as stagflation. According to official data, in 2014 the economy grew by only 0.1 percent and preliminary estimates forecast a shrinking of ...