strategies to survive crowds of people wait patiently at distribution centers for emergency supplies of food and toiletries many here agree corruption is a big part of the reason why rio is struggling today which will be awful my governor is in prison as a result of numerous charges resulting from the lava jato operation and other investigations of course we see a direct link between that and what s happening here today doubt that. since the olympic games crime of violence has soared clashes between the police. and drug gangs have escalated many police vehicles are unusable. the military deployed thousands of troops to rio de janeiro to help combat organized crime but that s done little to help. alessandro malone from that
conglomerate also reaped 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 demick in brazil. and why was corruption tacitly accepted and regarded as normal for so long. so our colonial heritage this was a country where exploitation was the norm it was always has always been like that a pact between the economic elite in the political elite these only garcon facts this was always the norm so it s perhaps lava shot is the first time that we have a shake a big shake on this oligarchic facts. centuries of backroom deals among brazil s elites gave rise to a political culture in which self enriching corruption was the norm.
people are coming to see them they re very curious my. at first a lot of them were shocked and appalled outraged almost that these works were bought with slush money for him saying that the sum. the exhibition is part of love a shot to 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
widespread 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 and 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 out or a tear in ism and this back wall in this. type of politics this type of
a story of political intrigue and corruption rivaling anything that s ever come out of hollywood. del town delane you re all the lead prosecutor in operation carwash was appalled over the last we already knew that brazil was riddled with corruption . knowing that a monster exists is one thing but looking not monster in the face is something else it was shocking use facets of what. investigators uncovered an insidious web of bribes and backroom agreements. at first the investigators were astonished at how deeply the country s political and business elite were implicated in the dealings. s.l. but also into it s the biggest anti corruption investigation in the history of brazil and the world we re talking about repayment obligations that s unprecedented or the british investing so these repayments on the largest that have ever been incurred