Corruption has depleted public funds and the cost of fighting this corruption is also high the federal government in brasilia has come to a near standstill the president and many of his ministers are devoting all their energy to defending themselves against the judiciary brazil is virtually paralyzed urgent reforms have been postponed ordinary citizens have less and less faith in their government. many are resting their hopes on general elections scheduled for october two thousand and eighteen but transparency international is skeptical. there is no assurance that what comes next is going to be better than what we have now the problem is that we haven t developed. a political culture or an i read new off our political culture we haven t three new of our political leadership we create these void and then what s going to fulfill it is populism outlawry tyrion ism and this back wall in this. type of politics this type of politics
Most of all it will be a long time before corruption in brazil is extinguished he had to tackle some of it as you. might brazil still find a solution to its dilemma many powerful and corrupt elites have been indicted dozens are already in prison most ordinary brazilians are desperate for change and if they elect a new honest generation of politicians they could spark a sea change brazil could still reinvent itself and shed its long history of corruption right now the chances seem better for that than ever before.
Of a major construction conglomerate that set up his own bribery division it s slush fund paid hundreds of millions of euros in bribes to politicians and political parties. we re. i don t know of a single brazilian politician who was elected without money at best some might claim to have. been unaware of that in the final analysis though the campaign funds they received from their party also came from these illegal accounts this is how it works in brazil it s a vicious circle at a movie theater with real. or depression is the principal witness in the corruption scandal and his testimony has struck fear into the heart of brazil s political elite he s been sentenced to ten years in prison. his construction conglomerate also wreaked huge profits from the world cup and the summer olympic games for instance during the renovation of the maracana stadium. but why is corruption and
Bought with slush money for him to hit the people. since. the exhibition is part of lava shot the strategy investigators want to generate as much publicity as possible as the best defense against political interference. it s a tactic that was employed to good effect in italy during the anti corruption investigations of the one nine hundred ninety s. back then the money police or clean hands investigation rocked the country the money police the investigation also centered on kickbacks and political corruption judges and public prosecutors uncovered a nationwide network of bribery and graft and made it all public not public prosecutor until an e.o. di pietro became a national hero industrialists and politicians from nearly every political party were indicted they included socialist bit dino cuts and christian democrat gilleo
Only. a country in freefall its people impoverished. brazil s young democracy is floundering. half of the congress is being investigated by i love my job and all the auto a corruption scandals a culture of graft and corruption has taken hold extending all the way into the highest ranks of government. many brazilians have taken to the streets calling down with demands. i will not step down. now they are going shouting a small team of courageous prosecutors has taken up the fight against corruption for ordinary brazilians they are the new heroes of democracy. yes