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Weekly Report - 27 October 2016 (WR-16-42)
BRAZIL: Cunha: down, but not out
News of the arrest of the former speaker of the federal lower chamber of congress, Eduardo Cunha, on 19 October has shaken Brazil’s political elite to the core. Far from removing Cunha from the political arena, his imprisonment could propel ‘Operation Car Wash’, the corruption investigation involving the state oil company Petrobras, into a whole new phase if Cunha chooses to act on repeated threats to bring other politicians and congressmen down with him by implicating them as part of a plea bargaining agreement.
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