"Mr. da Silva is the first former Brazilian president to be remanded into custody since democracy was restored in the mid-1980s and the first former president to have been convicted of corruption."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/world/americas/brazil-lula-surrenders-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-.html …
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“The increased lack of trust that actors will abide by the rules, the further demoralisation of already demoralised institutions, the explicit reduction of everything to a relation of force - that will be this period's lasting, most dangerous legacy.”https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/law-jungle-rule-brazil-today-180411082230831.html …
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Elio Gaspari, Brazilian journalist and author: “Brazil’s culture of political and business corruption may have been wounded, but we cannot assume that it has been destroyed.”http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/11/lula-lost-but-brazils-democracy-has-won/ …
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@nytimes editorial: “When a huge anti-corruption dragnet sweeps up a country’s most popular politician, justice is served, but democracy is tested. That is the situation facing Brazil”https://nytimes.com/2018/04/12/opinion/lula-brazil-corruption-scandal.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region …Show this thread
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