... sometimes find work protecting shipments for drug gangs and cartels.Beyond the prestige of being a Nobel laureate and cobbling together a tenuous peace accord, corruption scandals in the administration of president Santos have damaged his credibility.Brazilian corruption spills into ColombiaBogota media, the BBC and the Voice of America have all given important coverage to revelations that the presidential campaigns of Juan Manuel Santos in 2010 and 2014 received illegal financing from the Brazilian construction ...
... Brazil's reputation
Over the past few days media everywhere have been buzzing up reports that the often reticent Swiss justice ministry is investigating Odebrecht, Brazil's most prestigious and influential parastatal company, in connection with a massive corruption and money laundering scandal involving Brazil's state controlled oil giant Petrobras, known as Lava Jato (Car Wash).
A spokesperson for the Swiss justice ministry told media that Switzerland, as a financial center, has been seriously affected by the scandal. Brazil is cooperating with Swiss ...
... protests in Brazil have shown that the prolonged time in office of one party, even if the policies pursued by it have been successful, gives rise to aspirations for change, and that without political competition and alternation of power, the fight against corruption is unlikely to be effective.
Brazil has entered a period of stagnation, and it is unlikely that the situation will improve considerably by the end of Dilma Rousseff’s presidential mandate. Against the backdrop of austerity measures, the political pendulum will inevitably have ...
