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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 April 2017
Odebrecht reshapes Brazil’s political landscape
Allegations surrounding the government corruption scheme linked to engineering firm Odebrecht have decimated public confidence in Brazil’s political establishment. In case the public needed further proof how deep-rooted government corruption has become, on 11 April supreme court (STF) justice Edson Fachin handed over 500 gigabytes of videos to the local media implicating 100 leading politicians from the past 30 years in the corruption scheme.
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