it's a political war. with an approval rating of less than five percent michel to man it is now regarded as the most unpopular president in the country's history in two thousand and seventeen brazil's prosecutor general accused of being the head of an enormous machinery of corruption the indictment was based on secret recordings of meetings with the president and on testimony of top executives seeking immunity from prosecution. as its links mean this is now far more than a corruption scandal it's a system wide crisis and brazil's and tire political system is infected. one solution could be if the political parties cleaned house but they show no signs of any willingness to do so and so again. instead the country's political elite is using every means at its disposal in its fight for survival instead a pact with