The Final Act in the Case Dilma Rousseff

August 31, 2016 is a black day for the Brazilian democracy. Because after months of locking horns, the former President Dilma Rousseff was deposed in a more than dubious impeachment trial. With an overwhelming majority of 75 percent, the Federal Senate, the Federal Senado, voted for a political change – thus ending the 13-year-long dominance…

The Dirty Business with the Car Wash

The fifth largest country in the world is called a defective democracy. Because what is happening these days, just revealed the level of corruption that had been taken place in the last 20 years in this South American country. Yesterday was the sad climax of the corruption scandal, which has started in March 2014 as…

Das schmutzige Geschäft mit der Autowaschanlage

Das fünftgrößte Land der Welt wird nicht umsonst als defekte Demokratie bezeichnet. Denn was sich dieser Tage ereignet, offenbart nur das Ausmaß der Korruption, die sich in den letzten 20 Jahren in dem südamerikanischen Land zugetragen hat. Gestern war der traurige Höhepunkt des Korruptionsskandals, der im März 2014 als „Operação Lava Jato“ (Operation Autowäsche) durch…