Brazil: Latin America vs. corruption
Brazil: Latin America vs. corruption
Latin America’s crackdown on corruption could go down as “one of the most important changes" in the region, writes AS/COA’s Brian Winter in the Americas Quarterly “Corruption Busters” issue.
Senators in Brazil will vote Wednesday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, who is accused of hiding a budgetary deficit to help her win re-election in 2014.
But Brazil is far from alone. An anti-corruption wave seems to be sweeping across the region. Last year, Guatemala's former president, Otto Perez Molina, went to jail after a corruption scandal engulfed his government. Now leaders and dealmakers in Argentina, Chile and Venezuela are also being exposed for their own bribery or corruption scandals….
… these acts against corruption could be historic for the region, some say.
"If this crackdown continues, it will go down as one of the most important changes to Latin America in the 21st century," Brian Winter, editor-in-chief of the magazine America's Quaterly, wrote earlier this year. The title: "Corruption Busters."
