Brazil
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Over the past several years, both Brazil and Guatemala have been rocked by revelations of widespread corruption at the highest levels of government. Former presidents in both countries are now standing trial for their alleged roles in the respective scandals, which raise important questions about the nature of organized crime and corruption in Latin America.…
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Brazil’s two most powerful criminal organizations have broken a long-standing alliance and are fighting each other in a battle that authorities warn could spill onto the streets of Latin America’s most populous nation… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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Prosecutors have charged Brazil‘s former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva for the first time with direct involvement in a wide-ranging corruption scheme, raising a number of questions about the extent of the ex-leader’s role in the graft… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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The head of Brazil‘s federal election commission has warned that criminal groups are attempting to influence local politics in the country’s second largest city through a combination of financial coercion and outright violence… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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A wrong turn by an out-of-town police officer in Rio de Janeiro resulted in a shooting that killed one cop and injured two others, providing a peek behind the curtain of the security theater on display for this month’s Olympic Games… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
Mike LaSusa 