Temer(ity) may cost Brazil its president
Eerie parallels in high-level political corruption between Brazil and another Brics country
Brazil may be about to lose its second president in as many years to charges of corruption.Last year, the left-leaning Dilma Rousseff was impeached and booted out of presidential office. Now her successor, the right-leaning Michel Temer, has been charged by the country’s top prosecutor with accepting multimillion-dollar bribes.The parallels with a certain other Brics country are eerie.This, from a Reuters story: "Investigators have uncovered stunning levels of corruption in recent years engulfing Brazil’s political class and business elites. Much of it centres on companies paying billions of dollars in bribes to politicians and executives at state-run enterprises in return for lucrative contracts."Temer apparently took the equivalent of R160m in bribes from the world’s largest meat-packing company, JBS SA.His fatal mistake appears to be a discussion with one Joesley Batista, in which he condoned the bribing of a potential witness. Batista recorded the conversation and then exposed T...
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