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Weekly Report - 06 August 2015 (WR-15-31)
BRAZIL: After Dirceu, the deluge?
The arrest of José Dirceu, the former right-hand man of Lula da Silva, brings the ‘Operation Car Wash’ investigation a step closer to Brazil’s ex-president (2003-2011). It also undermines this week’s efforts to reboot the presidency of the country’s beleaguered head of state, Dilma Rousseff. After new allegations of corruption were levelled against Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of the federal lower chamber of congress, and arguably the executive’s most effective opponent, the government had hoped for some respite. Instead, the bad news keeps coming.
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