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On 8 January 2023, following the defeat of then-president Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a mob of Bolsonaro's supporters attacked Brazil's federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília.
Corruption in Brazil exists on all levels of society from the top echelons of political power to the smallest municipalities. [1] [2] [3] Operation Car Wash showed central government members using the prerogatives of their public office for rent-seeking activities, ranging from political support to siphoning funds from state-owned corporation for personal gain.
Bolsonaro himself burst onto the public scene in the late 1980s, soon after the end of Brazil's military government, as an army captain demanding higher wages for soldiers and built his power ...
Days after authorities regained control of Brazil’s government buildings the nation is still facing the aftermath and hundreds of rioters have been arrested and jailed. But the country’s ...
Brazil is a federal presidential constitutional republic, based on representative democracy. The federal government has three independent branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Executive power is exercised by the executive branch, headed by the President, advised by a Cabinet. The President is both the head of state and the head of ...
Brazilian authorities have indicted the country’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro alongside 36 other individuals as part of the investigation into a coup plot to keep him in power ...
Along with the problem of poverty, Brazil is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) of Brazil. Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear.
A majority of Brazilians do not believe the government's package of tax reforms and spending cuts will be enough to address their country's fiscal deficit, a poll published on Wednesday said.