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Weekly Report - 27 November 2014 (WR-14-47)

BRAZIL: Government stalls in fallout from 'Operation Car Wash'

After Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff’s election victory at the end of October, she indicated that she would appoint a new economic team “soon”. Presidential advisers briefed that this would happen before her trip to Australia for the G-20 summit on 15 November. But the summit came and went with no announcement. Then, 21 November was billed as decision day. Once again, reporters left the presidential palace empty-handed and with the impression that the increasingly devastating revelations about the nature of the corruption scandal at Petrobras, the state-owned oil company, are limiting the government’s capacity to act, before Rousseff has even been sworn-in for a second term.

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