Brazil is unraveling

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brazilian public universities include many of the highest rated in latin america and 49 of the top 50 rated universities in brazil are public

 

[Broken_Erika]

Police seize cocaine ahead of Bolsonaro flight
Police have seized cocaine from a Brazilian air force officer who was due to accompany President Jair Bolsonaro home from the G20 summit in Japan.

Officers arrested the man on Tuesday in Seville after allegedly discovering 39kg of cocaine in his luggage.

The man had been assigned with accompanying President Bolsonaro on the final leg of his trip back to Brazil.

Mr Bolsonaro was travelling on a separate plane at the time of the arrest.

On Twitter, Mr Bolsonaro said that he has asked the Defence Ministry to co-operate with Spanish authorities and that, if proved guilty, the officer would be "judged and convicted by law".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48787996

 

[Kyriakos]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48787996

Wise to not travel together with his mule.

 

[innonimatu]

Unsurprising, that agency Bolsonaro works for has always been involved in drug trafficking. And he went to HQ to get new orders recently.

Too bad it was too early to arrest the bastard when he stopped over. A lot of brazilians must first suffer more and learn what he is for that to be done. In due time.

 

[r16]

what stupidity . Have the President carry it hisself and not a paltry 39 . More like 390 . Planes are good these days .

 

[innonimatu]

Those who can read portuguese ought to read this, the most recent public revelations on how the "super-judge" Moro worked for the accusation on the process to prevent Lula from running for president.

The judge even received for review drafts of pieces that would be submitted later by the prosecutors! He told them what do put into the process and what to omit, and told them to proceed in instances where the prosecutors doubted whether they had evidence. He also ordered them whether to strike deals or press charges, or abstain from doing so. And asked the police to hide evidence from other judges who were called to review the case.

 

[r16]

brazilians are new to this . New Turkey was created with getting all the judges , cops , press and everyone or something under one roof so that they wouldn't tax themselves too much .

 

[innonimatu]

I know Brazil is not a hot topic here, and the few brazilians who showed up seem to have disappeared. But because journalists doing their job are so rare now and deserve being read, I wanted to quote some of the news about the "anti-corruption" investigation that unraveled Brazil:

In March 2018, Dallagnol received more than $10,000 to give a speech to Neoway Tecnologia Integrada Assessoria e Negócios S.A., a big-data firm that was under investigation by Car Wash for potentially corrupt contracts with a state-controlled oil company.
Three months later, Dallagnol was the featured speaker at a secret, off-the-record event with the most influential banks and investors in Brazil, organized by investment firm XP Investimentos.
In an apparent bid to convince Dallagnol to take on the off-the-record speaking gig, the XP representative told the prosecutor in the chats that Supreme Court Minister Luiz Fux had already participated in a similar off-the-record event “and nothing came out in the press,” adding that two other Supreme Court ministers had also been invited to give private talks.

The wealthy and the bankers have their hands on all the levels of power, including the judiciary. Too many people are available for sale, and if journalists do not expose them, this corruption will only multiply. As it is they still worry that word will come out about their deals. So not everything is lost.

The topic of the series of XP talks that Dallagnol and Fux participated in was the Car Wash investigation and the national elections that were scheduled to take place later that year. Invited guests included representatives from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Citibank, UBS, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Natixis, Société Générale, Standard Chartered, State Street, Macquarie Capital, TD Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Itaú, Bradesco, Santander, Verde Asset Management, and Nomura Holdings.
Dallagnol also brought with him Guilherme Donega, a Brazil-based consultant for the anti-corruption advocacy organization Transparency International. The group has close ties with the Car Wash task force and partnered with Dallagnol and colleagues on their New Measures Against Corruption initiative, a proposal for anti-corruption reforms.

And the largest "NGOs" are also in on the schemes, here "Transparency International". To expand they need financing. Which makes it normal for their workers to talk to the wealthy, and to seek to please them...

My take has been that scale inevitably breeds corruption. It just becomes too hard to keep the bad people in check, to force them to be accountable. That works in small groups, not in large groups. International NGOs are hopeless, they will always be captured.

As for Brazil, the corrupters won. They bought the judiciary, did a coup, imprisoned those who could stand in their way, and took over the country. I guess that may explain the vanishing act of some brazilians who, here, cheered for this process.

 

[innonimatu]

And guess what? The Supreme Court in Brazil has has to throw out ALL the Lava Jato crap because of how prosecutors and judge tainted both evidence and trials.

In the process their crimes have been revealed, and so did the "collaboration" with the US State Department. The thing has been called for what it was, a political persecution against Lula, to prevent him being elected and open the way to Bolsonaro. These corrupt prosecutors and judge derailed what originally was a corruption investigation and tainted the whole thing.

According to the Federal Public Prosecutors Ministry, the My Web Day and Drousys systems were used by Odebrecht's structured operations department. Data from these systems were used as the basis for criminal charges against former President Lula. However, Federal Police experts admitted that the documents copied from the "structured operations department" of Odebrecht may have been tampered with. Inconsistencies were found, such as documents incriminating Lula having dates later than their seizure date in Switzerland. It was also revealed in messages between "lava jato" prosecutors, obtained by hackers and seized by the Federal Police, that the material that formed the basis of the accusation against Lula in 2018 was transported in supermarket bags.

The Odebrecht leniency agreement, the largest in Brazilian judicial history, was homologated in 2017 and, despite making significant waves, resulted in many cases annulled with few convictions.

Injustice

In his new decision, Toffoli calls Lula's 2018 imprisonment "one of the biggest judicial errors in the country's history." Toffoli wrote that it was a "setup - the result of a power grab" by public officials who aimed to "take control of the state through seemingly legal means, but with methods and actions that were contrary to the law." "It was a serpent's egg,” he wrote, “hatched by authorities who abused their roles, acting in collusion to target institutions, authorities, companies, and specific individuals."

Toffoli wrote that the individuals involved in the case "disrespected due process, violated superior court decisions, manipulated evidence, acted with bias, and acted outside their jurisdiction." It was was "psychological torture - a 21st-century rack used to obtain 'evidence' against innocent people ."

Lava Jato, he wrote, "targeted natural and legal persons, regardless of their guilt or innocence and destroyed national technologies, companies, jobs, and public and private assets."

Toffoli wrote of “a cover-up in the name of fighting corruption, with the intention of imprisoning a political leader, with bias and in collusion and forging of 'evidence.'"

Coincidentally, the ones screaming here in the forum against Lula, so convinced of his guilt, were the same ones who pretended to believe that the US's stooge in Venezuela was President there. And supported the theft of Venezuela's foreign currency and gold reserves, the embargoes and attempts at economic strangulation that targeted its population. The eternal cheerleaders of the failing hegemon of the world and all its wrecking ball acts.