The biggest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history
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In 2014, the largest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history erupted in Brazil. It involved bribes between Petrobras, the largest state-owned oil company on the continent, and dozens of engineering firms. It also involved politicians, including three Brazilian presidents, Lula, Dilma Rousseff, and Michel Temer, as well as almost a third of Brazil’s congress.
Politicians all over Latin America were found guilty of taking bribes and profiting immensely from infrastructure and energy projects all over the continent. The scandal hit places like Itaborai especially hard. The companies involved were fined billions of dollars and laid off hundreds of thousands of workers as their projects abruptly stopped. Four years later, Brazil is still dealing with the fallout.
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“We don’t know the people we elect, they come in disguise “. Best description I’ve ever heard of a politician.
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and thats why we should never idolize a politician.
ptffffffffffff mexico is worse amigo
Big Surprise greed is elected
That's why democracy don't always work. There are too many criminals in political parties.
"If I speak, the republic is going to fall"
The one sentence you never want to hear from an affluent member of society.
-Jeffery Epstein
PJ Baker the most underrated comment
@@PatriPJBaker he never spoke
I want to hear it because it could lead to the restoration of the monarchy
It's alright if you live in a constitutional monarchy. :D
As corrupt as Brazil is, at least it has the decency to send its politicians and CEO's to jail. So kudos to them.
Not so simple my friend, time and time again the inocent goes to prison while the real bandit as a party with the president and the judge.
BOMBON187 Don’t be innocent. This is a groundbreaking case and still Brazil’s Left is still doing everything to free everyone from jail.
@@sway2000 Não existem razões que comprovem que o apartamento sequer seja dele
@@armandovaiandando6472 o que esperar da política brasileira quando os brasileiros ainda acham que o lula é inocente e foi um bom presidente ? Acorda , o lula até com o José Sócrates , presidente de Portugal que foi preso por corrupção , tinha esquemas.
but they get paided bribes and get good stuff inside prison like the freaking corrupt president Lula there is proove that he stole and he is free today and im brazilian
Bro one man didn’t break the republic, he broke the whole continent O.o
The video is conservative. The Brazilian companies also had projects in many African nations. The video only shows the American continent. But actually it broke two continents.
Brazil is not Latin America and since 2000 almost half miljoen Portugeze immigrated to Brazil..
@@lifestyleandbodybalanced4463 It is Latin American, Portuguese is a Latin derived language just as Spanish is. They are not however Hispanic.
@@robertjarman3703 As Roman Empire conquered until Turkye, Denmark, France, Portugal Spain, North Egypt, Lybia, Tunisa, East (South) Africa, West/North India etc..than the whole world is Latin?
+Robert Jarman Does that mean that Quebec is part of Latin america too? Because French originated from Latin just like Spanish and Portuguese.
That moment when your country gets so bad Vox starts making videos about it.
Luis Vinicius Costa Silva total hahahah
E dois vídeos em dois dias seguidos ainda.
I'm afraid of this eventually happening to mine too 😖
Bem no momento da eleição. Que coincidência
You think Brazil is bad! Then you have never seen where I come from.
Who else loves learning about the rest of the world
Here!!
Sad story for me because this one is not about the rest
Of course I do
And Vox isn't the best channel to do that you should do.more research on.this topic to really come.to know what happened ( Vox is a left Leaning media house and don't expect them to show you the full picture)
@TRINITON TV I agreed with you that people should do more research on this topic as no single source can give you the full perpective of what's going on. I didn't know Vox was left leaning channel until you said it; still, I didn't feel like they were biased, especially because they did not mention any of the right-wing politicians involved in the Operation Car Wash. Anyways, it's nice to see a different opinion about this page, as this is the first time I visit it, thanks.
"If i speak, the republic will fall"
*Top 10 words taken before disaster*
Mourinho: "Finally, a worthy opponent!"
"If I speak, the republic is going to fall" I wonder how many in the American government currently feel the same?
@Meera Kumar Does it though? This sounds like a horrible decision to have to make, either you go to prison and face punishment alone or you speak maybe don't go to prison or get a low sentence and ruin the lives of thousands of innocent people.
I don't envy the guy having to make that decision.
@@rjh00 Yea, even knowing some day they will come for your head. Anyways, he has decided to stay at that position when all this establishment "business" began and trust me he made some pennies from them..... It's the money children are asking for at the streets when selling cheap handy stuff at the traffic lights (very common y South America), it's the money that was for painting schools and hospitals, etc. etc. etc. So I don't feel particularly sorry for any of these garbagges.
That level of corruption is not in the USA, but that could change.
@Meera Kumar it's not a movie but real life and real life has consequences.
None
Haha, don't tell me the Rio Olympics construction work was also involved in the engineering firm corruption.
If you're brazillian you know YES IT WAS. And that's obvious.
Brazillian politicians fought tooth and nail to bring World Cup followed by Olympics. Now we know why.
And they still say Lula is just a political prisoner. He's a criminal and must pay for it
@@skelun Weird that Vox didn't mention it in any way since they had lots of videos on the world cup and the olympics.
@@VulpeculaJoy they already made tons of videos about Brazil and Rio.
Yes it probably was...
Billions were used, of course some might have been stolen... When the subject is corruption in Brazil, you're guilty until proven innocent...
Corruption isn't a bug, it's the system itself.
-Rashad, 2018. Well stated.
Thats why the goverment must be small
@@danilonarb629 Remove the government and the corporations or another country's government will take the torch and be just as, if not more corrupt. The whole system is rotten and one day it will be gone.
@R. W Lose the crap man, Hayek just ignores or misrepresents all the flaws with the free market. Look at today's firms, none of them operate in a free market, all of which operate in a Monopoly, Oligopoly or Monopolistic competition market.
If you are an economist you will understand the kinked demand curve and the requirements for a free market, mainly the unlimited firms and perfect information, disproving the free market itself.
@@Dylan-hy2zj i said the goverment should be small, in relation to GDP , never said it shouldnt exist. smaller goverments can be less corrupt, because they literally have less money and power to use in their favour
I wish Brazil the best in the coming years, love from Arabia
thank you,although i think that we are starting to slowly rise again
Jaber Tagi luckily bolsonaro became president, so things are changing
@@azar5422 Bolsonaro is corrupt just like the pt
Habibi who calls it arabia are we in 1915 😂
@@hfhehdhwhhahshhauwunsnammw6790 this is the Orginal name
Some Car washing needs to happen in India.
As much as I wanted it to happen this will halt the economy engine which is currently the case in brazil
The problem is... None of them will be arrested.
They will bribe their way out and fled to other countries like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, etc.
*Laughs intensely in Venezuelan*
@@vadapallichaitu8799 And so, let the corrupt system continue ! Right ?
@@harshitagarwal9891 not exactly, hand over the administration to other people so daily operations and jobs are going on
Just so people really understand the scope of the corruption, Lava-Jato is currently in it's 52nd stage, 4th year since the investigation started, each stage potentially having multiple cases like Comperj and Itaboraí, and the investigation is far from over. It isn't a single city, a single project, a single political party, a single area, a single case, a single private company... it's quite literally a network that involves the majority of the biggest private companies in Brazil, politicians from almost every political party, cities in all regions of brazil, with all manners and variations of corruption schemes.
And here's the kicker: This is only for the stuff directly or indirectly related with the initial Petrobras related scheme. Despite spanning all that, it's still only the stuff related to Petrobras and subsidiaries. It is only one case in a multitude of others.
There are tons and tons more of other corruption schemes coming to light that are not Lava-Jato related. The reason why international press covers Lava Jato is because it's a highly organized, concise, and current case. It is symbolic, representative.
But corruption schemes similar to the one unveiled by Lava Jato are numerous and several of them are just as big. So, everything you just watched in this video is like a tiny percentage, of a scheme that is probably still a tiny percentage of the total of corruption schemes in Brazil. Can you imagine that? A political system where quite likely more than half the politicials all are involved with some level of corruption one way or the other. My hometown had 7 of the 9 city councilmen arrested on corruption charges, right before an election. The other two had suspicions of involvement but there wasn't enough proof to put them in jail. It's a mid sized touristic city.
For lack of candidates, several of them were re-elected. They had to leave their jail cells to go to their Induction Day, take cuffs off to sign the papers officializing their positions, and then go straight back to jail. It's highly representative of what has been happening throughout the country.
Before Dilma, there was one president that was impeached due to yet another huge corruption scandal back in the early 90s with all sorts of sordid details - ex-president Collor. He initially basically fled the country and was banned for several years from politics. Well, guess what? He returned, was elected a senator just 16 years after his shameful and highly negative kick in the butt, then he became a governor, and then he was caught and arrested yet again involved in the Lava-Jato scheme. Only this time he was small fry. The corruption scheme is so huge that it puts his original impeachment scandal to shame.
With that you start understanding how the heck a country that's almost as big as the US, that pays some of the highest total tax per capita and has some of the most aggressive importation taxes in the world (we usually have to pay from 60 to over 100% of imported product price in taxes) can be so poor and underdeveloped. Brazil is a very rich country with a very hard working class that is overburdened by taxes and bureaucracy, with public money drained with corruption schemes, a political system that is rotten to the core where corruption is institutionalized and inseparable, and all manners of public services underfunded, underpaid and in shambles. Everything related to government in Brazil works at 5 to 10% capacity because all the rest is either stolen by politicians, or highly mismanaged.
We never had a real democracy here. It's a corruptocracy. It's unending. There is no hope. People who think something will change after the next election that ends tomorrow is living under an illusion. Every single president we've ever had after the military dictatorship promissed to end corruption. The military dictatorship itself promised to end it and was just another one among the corrupt govenments.
Collor promised it, a flagship of his campaign, literaly. Lula promised it, using the middle and upper class and "elites" as scapegoat to corruption. Dilma promised it, as continuation of what Lula did in his years, which we all know by now that only served to deepen and entrench corruption even more. Now both Haddad and Bolsonaro are promising the same thing. I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad.
And just so people know, it might look good that at least people are getting arrested for their crimes. But the truth is, way more people are not being arrested even with an overabundance of evidence against them. The first guy who was arrested under the Lava Jato investigation is already free. He got out because of good behavior after just 1/3rd of his total sentence, because you see, the jail, law and justice system are already compromised to favor white collar criminals. Lula among several other convicted and arrested corrupt politicians have key people working inside Brazil's justice system and high courts attempting every single way possible to free them up. We have judges openly affiliated to the workers party that tried slipping up a bail order to free Lula. And now we have a candidate for presidency (Haddad) that was the former Lula defense lawyer who is running on a campaign to free Lula. He only entered the presidencial race because Lula couldn't run.
So you see, there is no way out of this. Corruption is so ingrained into brazilian politics and in turn in brazilian society, institutions, and even private businesses that people have no hopes anymore. People who have worked and dedicated their entire lives to see most of their money and investments stolen by the people elected to protect it. It is a sad thing to see so much human potential wasted for nothing. Brazil is a country located in very priviledged lands. We almost have no natural disasters here to talk about. Most of the country have no snow season. We have the amazon rainforest down here. We have people living in the worst conditions imaginable still finding room for happiness. And yet, we a bogged down by this exploitive sordid politics. Such a shame.
You're so right it hurts. Upvoted so more people can read your post.
This is the most accurate comment regarding Brazil as a whole I've ever read.
Laser point precision.
One of the first unbiased posts I have seen about our political situation.
Sad indeed. Best solution: do what my uncle did and that was save up money and gtfo of there. He moved to Canada and at least its 10x better than brazil.
Brazil may be messed up but at least they have the guts to prosecute and jail their rich and powerful. How many bankers were held accountable for the 2008 recession/housing crisis? They all got bailouts because they were considered too important and too big to fail.
And then got bonuses on top of that!
+David Boucard No disrespect, but having lived in both Brazil and the US, that is a comparison that can't be accurately made. First, because the US is such a highly credit based country, what bankers did was give millions of people home loans who should have never qualified for them in the first place. Immoral, definitely.
Corrupt to the point of being jailed, not by a long shot, simply because people who asked for those loans they personally knew they could not afford, but made irresponsible decisions based on what they wanted at that moment in time. No one put a gun to their head and made them ask those banks for loans.
And for those who actually know about economics and "bail outs," those were not "bail outs" because those banks had to pay the government back all that money back with interest, which they did long ago. Those were loans to keep those banks lending.
And yes, those banks were too important to fail in a credit based society. Local credit unions aren't the ones financing the majority of homes, cars, businesses, etc. in the United States. It is big banks that are financing most of it. Most credit unions and smaller banks don't give subprime loans or loans to people with credit damage.
Those big banks were not going to "fail" without the bail outs, they simply were going to have to become extremely strict with loans and subprime lending would have come to an end, which for the majority of Americans with dubious credit scores would have made it impossible in the future to get financing for most things. People really need to research economics beyond what they see on the news.
The average consumer was as much to blame as the lenders. When a society becomes based on "leasing a lifestyle" with credit, things like that eventually happen.
@@gaston6800 he does have three likes and you have only one buddy, what he said makes sense
@@DonVinny this isn't a contest
Yeh them and hillary clinton be like i can lose peoples money too like banks
"even a former president" * perú sweats nervously *
*all of the former presidents
Vizcarata, pprata, el huebon que ni termino la universidad, cuanta basura
3 presidents in a week
@@cedricrobertson2893 gotta love latin american politics
Ratalan García, Little thing Heredia, and PPRat XD.
What have we done to deserve this?
Also you have Choledo and Vizcarrat, but these are cases related with other enterprises.
Fortunately, we are going to get an expresident without investigations after 20 years of wait. But this happiness won't last long because the candidates of these elections are...
“Congresso Corrupto” sounds like a coffee
"Congresso corrupto" in portuguese means corrupt congresso in english, words from me, a brazilian
Congresso means congress, The coment traduced
Cookie Bruh I kinda figured that out before making my comment
Haha, true. Maybe because the word Congresso remembers the word Expresso a bit.
It sounds like a proper description of my country
Brazil we send you love and support from Colombia. I hope that your country stand up from this crisis you are passing by.
Keep it up!!!
thank you :)
Thank you very much. Colombians will always be brothers to us. Much love to your beautiful country and people.
Much love from American!
We have Bolsonaro now, we gonna rise and we gonna help latin america to get rid of this socialists/communist parties that keep destroying our chance to grow. We need free-market and good allies. Thanks.
Thank you so much. Now with the new president Bolsonaro, we have faith Brazil will be ok again.
Kudos to the Brazilian police to investigate and not be afraid of going after a corrupt government
MasonsTurtle yea but police officers dropped like flies man
In regards to violence in Rio de Janeiro, that is correct, @davi santos. Close to 100 policemen dead this year alone, I believe. But that has nothing to do with the Operation Car Wash. Not directly, anyway.
This means that there were cops and officials denying an offer of corruption.
Thanks to those who said no.
In reality, it's a bit different. The car-wash operation is kinda partidarian. They do arrest politicians, but the whole system turn blind eyes when those politicians come from a right wing party.
@@apexjesus8369 like they were killed? or what do u mean?
Brazil I: The phantom menace.
Brazil II: The attack of Lula
Brazil III: The revenge of the Far Right.
Well, it may be weird but Brazil now needs a real far right president, we were in a far left regime since the end of the dictatorship so maybe this way we can finally be a political center country but unfortunately Bolsonaro is just a conservative. I know it's weird but extreme situations needs extreme solutions, we don't have enough time left, we need radical change
@@Bards.98 bolsanaro isnt just "conservative", he is a junior Pinochet waiting to hatch
TheFamousMockingbird that doesn't even make sense. Stop being so dramatic.
Hahahahaha, so true!
@@TheFamousMockingbird Bolsonaro is a joke like Trump, not a threat, I am more worried with the left and their class thing paranoia
Imagine a dude being responsable by the worst corruption scandal in history got quitted off the jail and being president again
Apenas no brasil
Almost as though it was a corrupt scandal setup by America and other interests within the right sect of Brazil to put him behind bars. Just look at the judge appointed to his case
@@whatdatdogdo Source: Trust me bro
As fellow developing country citizen, I wish all Brazilian all the best. Keep strong!
Alia Ris me too, stay strong Brazil, it’s darkest before the dawn.
thank you!
Thanks,that means a lot
manh phuc
With our current elections, it seams It's about to get darker.
Thank you
Do more scandals around the world.
Edit: I mean do more videos on scandles... not literally do more scandales.
LOL!
There will be then tons of video's on India...
@Ameya Naik man all parties are corrupt af...
@@pepehimovic3135 struggles of every developing country 😕😔
@@pepehimovic3135 eeeh...nope
I think that Brazil has the ability to become as strong a nation as the US, China, or EU (IK not a nation but work together alot), its just so unfortunate the amount of corruption. I hope Brazil gets better in the near future.
No
No
Yes
Until Brazil changes it's culture, it'll never be a super power.
@@user-sx5ze8oq3k What do you mean? There isn't anything wrong with brazilian culture...
Well I guess the Brazil memes make sense
Come to Brazil
@@otavioluis5774 no please dont im too weak
In Peru our president had to resign from his job. Our last president and his wife were sent to jail. Last elections first runner has been sent to jail also. And every president since 2001 is being investigated for curruption
Excepto Alan porque ese conchesumare es intocable por alguna razon
It makes me wonder what goes through those politicians heads every time they run for office. "How much money can I make?" Its like the politicians are detached from reality or something.
Y mucho más todavía, pata mío. Dios!!!! QUÉ NOS PASÓ!!!!
But the thing is our last president (Kuczynski) didn't have to resign because of Odebrecht or Car Wash. He had to resign because of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori's sickening ambitions of power. Keiko and her party (the majority party in the Peruvian congress) tried to impeach Kuczynski twice before he finally resigned after many prominent figures of his government were caught negotiating with Kenji Fujimori (Keiko's own brother) votes against Kuczynski's impeachment. One of Keiko's congressmen, Moisés Mamani, caught these negotiations in video, probably because of Keiko's own orders.
Currently, many of Peru's main politicians have been involved in Car Wash or Odebrecht operations. Alberto Fujimori, Alejandro Toledo, Alan García, Ollanta Humala, Nadine Heredia, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Keiko Fujimori, Susana Villarán, Luis Castañeda; all of them with some involvement in corruption related to Brazilian companies. Hopefully, things are starting to change, both Kuczynski and Humala are unable to leave the country and both their cases are currently being investigated, Toledo is getting extradited from the US and this week, Keiko Fujimori has been brought to court because of money laundering. So maybe there's hope ahead. Viva el Perú, carajo!
PD: Alan CTM, ya cas a caer.
Javier Do you think that what's happening in Peru is due Operation Car Wash? Have Brazil's corruption investigations helped your country in any way ?
"Operation car wash" sounds like the title of some cheesy 80's "sexy comedy".
Brazil`s federal police is known hete for giving the most ridiculous funny names to operations, this one actually makes sense tho
Corruption in latin america? Never heard that before
Corruption is everywhere. The US is corrupt too, but people fail to recognize it.
@@Superputazo23 the US is why Latin America is so corrupt lol
@@Superputazo23 we don't fail to see i think it's so corrupt that's it's just normal to us now lol
Oh no, this, this is worse than normal. And this has gotten worse since the video's production.
@@Superputazo23 r/woosh
The funny thing is that these crimes (bribes) investigated in Brazil, are not considered crimes in the USA and Europe. It even has a nicest name there: lobby
Lobbies can't give money to politicians, they can just advocate for them.
@@gteixeira ofcz they can through funding of election campaigns, lobbying is not a crime
Brazil will be alright, they got gambiarra
Hell yeah. *hu3 intensifies*
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for anyone wandering what gambiarra means, its means a cheap fix or cheap setup of something, this word is funny because it sums up well brazilian culture
@@irgendwer3610
As a Brazilian, I agree strongly. Everything here is a "gambiarra". From police cars to neighborhoods.
I'm so glad to see this temple of corruption fall.
Its just sad that in the process, its ruins bury the people.
Most poetic comment on CZcams.
Too bad it's all coming back years later. The arrested politicians and CEOs are all out of jail now and corruption is at it's worse again, with the car washing operation going under a bad light after president Bolsonaro ruined the reputation of Sergio Moro, the judge who conducts the investigations, for political disagreements. The Supreme Court then had the chance to freed most of the people who had been arrested during the operation and they took it.
Hey Vox, come to the Philippines and do a video on our oligarchs. 😂 This video hits so close to home.
You guys have oligarchs?
@@tomaszzalewski4541 Ferdinand Marcos was the most corrupt politician in history
@@maximocambria4594 Nope, Indonesian dictator Soeharto a.k.a 2nd president was
@@maximocambria4594 the legendary guiness record (ain't proud tho, i'm filipino) and till now the marcos family hasn't given those ill-gotten wealth back to the filipinos
It’s sad and the nightmare starts again … God bless Brazil
I would make one minor change/add: Governments' officials not only took bribes but, also, demanded them. Odebrecht said that was the only way to make things happen in Brazil. Politicians want money to keep themselves in power.
am i the only one who loves that the name of the largest scandal in latin america is ‘Operation Car Wash’ ?
I would be so offended If this wasnt so funny.
The oddest thing about it is that the gas station in question doesn't even operate a car wash.
A M I T H E O N L Y O N E ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Believe we have other investigations with cool names too
It's probably a metaphor for making the the dirty money look clean like how you go to a carwash when your cars dirty
That intro looks like a Call Of Duty Modern Wafare mission
Bruh
Brazil is a beautiful and great country it's sad to see it fall through corruption and interests in other than their citizens, I wish you the very best Brazil and your beautiful people, much love from Mexico♥️
Brazil is such a massive beautiful country but corruption ruins it all
Alexa play despacito
Salokin LOL Despacito is a song in Spanish, they don’t speak that in Brazil. The rest of your statement is unfortunately true and it does cover Hispanic countries, it’s our biggest problem in the region.
@@carlosvasquez6151 That's a meme, xará.
This is so sad
No, this is epically.
Yeah, but that old "it's a beautiful country, but the people..." canard (equally applied to Colombia, Venezuela, etc.) is kind of like saying "That's a great restaurant, but every time you eat there, you get diarrhea." How great a restaurant is it then, really?
Truth is, many Brazilians didn't understand exactly what happened. So they created their own narrative, failing to detect the real causes and finding the wrong answers.
Oh no sir, brazilians did understand. But mostly didnt want to believe that a "common people" president, had anything to do with the corruption.
100% agreed. Most people have no idea what they are talking about and why everything has happened the way it did. The problem is that most people don’t care - they just want punishment. God knows why people think Bolsonaro is the right answer though.
@@user-hi7ze4bt8r And we still here... two harmful options to make Brazil move on in the next 4 years...
...move on, but backwards
a lot of people just started to hate the Worker Party after all this, and since brazilians are raised and educated to be short-sighted and ignorant, many of the same people decided to vote on Bolsonaro and look where that has gotten us.
i feel hopeless. on one hand i can’t stand this ridiculous man being the president of the republic, but on the other i don’t want to vote on someone who was previously involved in such scandal.
but there’s no one else basically. the others trying for president are not popular enough to compete with Bolsonaro, so if i want that man out of that position… there just doesn’t seem to exist an ending to all this.
at this point i just wanted to leave brazil. go to canada, uk, netherlands, idk. anywhete that’d be better than here.
O crime compensa.
Bolsonaro concorda
@@pedrosilveira6554 lula usa essa frase de inspiração
@@Botelho1 Lema do PT
Watch this. CiA is indeed involved in the scandal. Snowden reviewed that back in 2016.
Proof?
So well made! Bravo. As a venezuelan citizen I appreciate this types of investigations and the way it is simply explained with great graphic images.
what a bad time to have your surname
LOL It's pretty common in Perú, even all the people that I know off who are named the same come from there. Not the case here. @@jotapeschriefer
@@flavioluiscc don't worry I was just kidding :D
This is some Narcos organized stuff. Damn!
maybe because Narcos is based on real life events
Narcos is nothing close to Lava Jato.
We have Narcos & House of Cards here...
It's worse, my dude. Every other political figure is also involved. Everyone gets their hands dirty to achieve the main positions on the public machine. The country is doomed.
yeah, brazil is not for beginners
Just to said
The same People envolved in this corruption case came back to the power in 2022
notice how this video never once says what da silva was "guilty" of? oh, because he wasn't guilty, the real corruption was from the bolsonaro loyalists illegally imprisoning their political opposition
Bolsonaro with his fellows broked car wash because he said that there is no more corruption in the government hahahaha
Press f pra pagar respeito tamo fudido
And it condemned our country once again in the clutches of the PT and the various people responsible for the car wash
"We do not know the people we elect. They come in disguise"
Damn, that hit me hard
Democracy in many ways is fundamentally broken
Donald Trump
Man the animations are so crisp. It is a beautiful video! The scandal is horrible. Hopefully the world learns from this
Sam Looney so let corrupt the police and killed the investigators next time?
manh phuc no no I mean that there shouldn’t be another scandal like this! That’s what I meant and I know I worded weirdly
CEO’s of American companies with government contracts probably watch till the end of this video and wonder “so when do they get to the illegal part?”
Fun fact, they´re all ahead of the gov again.
Now to the difficult question. Was it worth it? Was there another way to handle it all without halting all projects and causing mayhem?
Or is it the hard fall before a better tomorrow?
One year late the answer, but the biggest problem is how our justice system works, in those corruption scandals its not the people involved that goes to jail but the companies also so all those hard working employees from the companies that had notnhing to do with it, projects done by them are halted as the companies involved are also penalised, but in this case is hard to not to do so, as the Oderbretch had a hole department literally dedicated to organize an industrial level of bribery distribution.
Maybe something like the government taking ownership of the company for 5-10 years or something and replacing all the higher ups, after all the machines and lower level people weren't involved in the illegal aspect of the companies. Then after that 5-10 years Brazil would sell the company to a willing buyer.
The issue is that you would have to trust that you got rid of all the corrupt people in the government, which is pretty much impossible.
bro brazilian politicians only want money
Well, that’s really hard to say, I’ll tell you what happened after that. People got really upset about this massive corruption. It started a movement of non-political politics, as weird as it looks like. Politicians that speak about how honest they are with no real background had a massive win on the elections that came after. That created a really big polarization on the country.Well, after realizing that we were just putting our faith on radical politicians pro leftwing or right wing I think we may see some change and start to have a real vision for the future as the country is focusing more on nonradical politicians.
The answer is no. The economy is broken , people are unemployed
Disgusting that the reputation and prosperity of a whole country can be ruined by a corrupt few who only seek to better themselves.
Chris S Exactly!
Tell me about it (Venezuelan here 😕).
This atlas series is really well researched and presented. Good going Vox!
I love some of the background scores from Vox, I wish put out a link for the back ground scores.
“Let me fix this country with the power of flex tape.”
-Politician, 2018
just to demonstrate the power of flex tape, I sawed this boat in half!
Could you guys add portuguese captions?
I wish I could show this to my relatives.
There are captions now
@@franchufranchu119 yeah they are there now. Also you can volunteer in some way to help create them,im not sure how though.
@@sanskaarkulkarni1036 sadly, the community captions contribution feature was removed from CZcams a fews weeks ago.
Check it, there's Portuguese D:
gbu
*Vox:* Biggest scandal in South America
*Me:* Please don't say Brazil, please don't say Brazil
How can you explain Car Wash so greatly, and make a video picturing Lula as a nice guy ? HOW ?
i was there in Brazil in 2015, and i watched the country collapse, yet i watched people who gained hugely from that, you should've talked about this point
I was there as well and left in the middle of 2017. Everything was affected, literally, everything. And the worst part is that it still is and probably will be for the next few years if the government keeps up with this. Not to mention Jair Bolsonaro.
@@thanksman4897 what blew my mind is that although the economy collapsed, the exchange rate BRL was rising against the dollar! I was exporting goods from Brazil for a short while, then it got impossible to export, and of course people couldn't import anything due to the situation
@@kdshow82 it's called inflation
@@sebastiansotoochoa990 in bizarro world it is
ThIs iS prOpAgaNda
-every non-brazilian that pretends that they know the situation
Well why don't you explain it
Ok, now explain it dude
Tbh. It's actually quite good to have an expert foreign view on a country. More likely not to have vested interest and thus less likely to be biased or to one side.
Almost every person when his country is under elections or with a populist government
I don't agree. I think Vox was able to explain the situation in a unbiased way and just told the truth.
Mucho amor hermanos brasileños. Acá en México la cosa es igual o peor, solo que aquí nadie mueve un dedo para deterner a los corruptos, todos son parte de lo mismo. Saludos 🇲🇽🇧🇷
Aqui quando movemos um dedo, voltamos três.
Obrigado, mas essas operações nem mudaram muita coisa não. o Brasil continua indo de mal a pior a cada dia que passa😢
One of the biggest chiefs is back by suspicious ways 😭😭😭😭😭 we need something to happen NOW
Can we get an individual video on odebrecht and it’s overall impact on Latin American corruption?
It's not just Odebrecht. There are other big construction companies such as OAS, Andrade Gutierrez, Camargo Correa and companies outside of the construction business that were fueled by our National Development Bank (BNDES).
allluckyseven Forgive my limited scope on the situation, but I’m merely asking for the info on odebrecht because they seem to have the biggest web tangled with multiple governments all over Latin America, it wouldn’t surprise me that there are more situations just like this one, it’s just important to point out the unsustainable corruption all over the region
And also the implication in Africa and how the Workers Party PT was selling Brazil to the Chinese!
Amazing graphics, stunning music, great footage, and informative narration. Thank you!
Operation Car Wash resulted in a temporary spike in unemployment and stopped projects, but it has also exposed Brazil's corruption. In the long run, Brazilians should be thankful to this operation for finally setting things straight! Countries riddled with corruption can never stay superpowers for long, and hopefully Brazil can make a clean start.
Great video! It would be interesting to see one of Mexico. Especially with everything that happened with Duarte.
If people who say this is propaganda please let me know how and what parts.
Jay Sparkxyz yeah, good idea
I would not say that it is propaganda, but there are more to it. No one deny that corruption scheme, the problem is that it is older than the workers party's (PT) govern, but the old corruption is largely ignored. And what is new but not from PT is or overlooked or a judge just stop the investigation and give freedom for those involved. In this way just by choosing what to investigate the judges are making a political statement.
Lula is a criminal. There are TONS of evidences he is the BOSS of a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR corruption scandal. He is not a victim, he is a convicted criminal. There is no bias in the Judiciary system. It is just the rule of law being applied. The electoral polls are fraudulent. He was not leading the polls. The problem is that the workers party own the media, then those institutes are used as propaganda vehicles. The economic crisis Brasil is facing has to do with the economic policies of Dilma Rouseff, who increase public spending to a unsustainable level, leading Brazil to a credit, financial e confidence crisis. In 2015, we had a drop of 4 percent in GDP and 10 percent inflation.
IT is imporant to say that many multi-national companies have privileges that the front Runner Jair Bolsonaro is willing to end. So Bear in mind that there are a lot more at stake than you might think. And this explain the BIAS of this video and Yesterday`s video.
The ironic thing is that Dilma approved 2 out of 5 of the most important anticorruption laws in Brazil. The Worker's Party (PT) was even praised by the Federal Police on the advance of anticorruption measures. Temer, Dilma's vice-president, is part of the most corrupt party in the country, and the first thing he did when he came to power was to try and weaken the anticorruption measures. The political crisis is far more complex than people imagine.
@@stellacarneiro4996 isnt temer some sort of conservative. I know hes extremely hated
USA: Oh Brazil is falling? *Time to add some influence*
UnscriptedRex the problem with Brazil is that the incentives and culture of insecurity on every level of society make it stupid not to be corrupt and look out for yourself & friends
Usa: you said oil?
China beat USA to it, but most people here haven't realize it yet.
Petrobras will become PetroUS
China only wants resources sadly, I fear Brazil is going to be had like Bolivia and Venezuela
They came back, unfortunately
"Hold my Corona"
-Mexico
Boo. HAHAHAHAHA,..
Wouldn't "Hold my Chili" be more accurate
More on "hold my sombrero"
Mexicans hardly drink Coronas lol besides chicanos but they aren’t really Mexicans , up there as one of the worst beers I have ever tasted don’t know why the rest of the world likes the beer.
You mean China
Great job guys. It's really big joy to watch your videos and see how well complicated things explained. Thank you, and please keep going! Big love from Lithuania
The scale and position of Brazil makes it very important to talk about the ongoing situation over there. Brazil will become another example as to how immature democracies coupled with irresponsible people can easily fall and become worse than authoritarian regimes.
The Petrobras scandal has such huge implications and was handled with such radical measures that the entire Brazilian political system stopped functioning. Uncovering and arresting all the people in corruption schemes of this level has two sides, it punishes the actors but at the same time, it also punishes a huge section of Brazilian society since everyone in critical positions is busy trying to cover their asses and completely ignore the actual pressing issues of Brazil. As a country dealing with neighboring drug producers, illegal Amazonian loggers and a highly volatile Venezuela, violence and law enforcement was always a problem, but now the civil system, which had at least some grip on it, completely ground to a halt. The economic situation of the working class (which was already a disaster) was collateral damage during the investigation.
And the result is someone like Bolsonaro. Time and time again, when the economic situation of the masses hit crisis point, radical solutions will become very popular. Couple that with the violence in Brazil and you almost certainly got a perfect storm.
Bolsonaro favors military dictatorships, which is usually what happens when a society is in (civil) war and civil administration is incapable of governing.
The problem for Brazil is that history has shown, that while military dictatorships sort out the most basic amenities (like security and political stability), they are terrible at civil administration and are often economic illiterates. Either way, the working class of Brazil will suffer for the foreseeable future under either a completely paralyzed civil administration or an economic illiterate military dictatorship.
If Brazil indeed becomes a militaristic society, is it possible they may start a conflict with neighboring countries?
Even worse, instead of fighting corruption by punishing the criminals and protecting public assets and society, they undermine Petrobras and government investments, basically freezing the country's economy and throwing it in a man-made economic crisis. That alone drstroyed millions of jobs, and made it so that 90% of infrastructure works in Brazil are now paralized. I don't know if the prosecutors see this as collateral damage or if it is a part of their plan for some reason, but it really boils down to a sabotage of Brazil's economy and future. No serious country, when faced with corruption scandals, chooses to destroy its national economy and national companies, rather than just punish those who did the corruption to protect those very two things. Only Brazil....
"Bolsonaro favors military dictatorships": you get that idea by watching videos from the international media, and they're very biased. They always focus on Bolsonaro's past statements and don't analyze the whole picture. Yes, he's bigoted and romanticizes Brazil's former military government, since he was an army captain himself during that age. But he's also said he has no plans of implementing a military government or a coup, and that he defends democracy.
On the other hand...the opposite party is basically communist. Haddad, the second candidate, was a communist in college, the vice president candidate belongs to PCdoB (literally means Communist Party of Brazil). As a Brazilian myself, I'm not as pessimist as you. Bolsonaro represents a whole paradigm shift, the end of a corrupt government that's been in the power for 20 years (I don't mean he's not corrupt). He doesn't play by the rules of PT and their allies, in that way, he's like Trump. His election represents renovation and very positive economical impacts. The national currency has been raising consistently along with his poll results. Fun fact: right after he got stabbed, BOVESPA (sort of Brazilan Dow Jones) indexes raised considerably, since ppl believe that would help him to be elected.
Even if you want to make the case for your position, your argumentation logic is flawed.
You accuse the media for only focusing on Bolsonaro's past but your next argument is that we should not forget Haddad's past. If you want to stay consistent, you have to either include both candidates pasts and argue from that position or leave them both out; only doing one but not the other makes you a political advocate for one. For a whole picture, you'd have to include both of their past and present.
"Bolsonaro favors military dictatorships" is not a wrong statement. If you look at his Wikipedia biography, you will realize that he as a person likes strong, decisive leadership within the military, his formative years were all within the military and his views come from his experiences there.
Military thinking is highly valued during times of war and conflict, because the military needs hero figures and leaders during times of chaos. But if you look at history, the military was not so much the focus during times of peace and economic prosperity and military dictatorships have never had good economic policies in the first place. Most fall after the population is secure enough to go back to doing business and they are still stuck in the old ways.
'Weapons are the last straw of politics' so to say and I don't think Brazil needs warfare (civil or otherwise) at this time. He might understand the likes of executing security and armed operations, but I am pretty sure he has little idea of how to build a sustainable economy.
Haddad might have been communist during his youth, but his person has never left the civilian world - he studied economics and politics, things only useful during times of civil peace; he is an academic and civil servant, so his thinking is shaped by that. People like him will struggle to deal with security and order, because civil academics never know how to balance economy with the necessities of security. While I don't think he is a communist nowadays (he is way more busy trying to keep his party from going down completely from corruption), he might have better learned the lessons of the history of the Soviet Union: Their system was a failure and repeating their system is just as bad as a military dictatorship.
Take it from countries with a longer history than Brazil and who have tried all sorts of radical systems, neither extremes have worked out for sustainable prosperity. Populists and extremists always need chaos to thrive, military dictatorships need war, communists need the poor. All the talk of 'anti-elites' is untrue, because in the end, a president needs people to help him do the job, he can never do everything on his own and to keep those civil servants happy, he needs to make compromises. Because without them, he can't keep his power.
@Mat H That's why I said: "I don't mean he's not corrupt".
And the most of the folks who were arrested are now free and coming back to the govern “Bostil”
This video has aged badly.
Esperando eles fazerem o vídeo sobre o maior escândalo de uso político do judiciário para promoção pessoal e perseguição política
Vox, I'm Brazilian and loved your two videos about my country. Even though I already have knowledge about the themes that your videos explained, I learned with them. I really hope that your channel keeps making video about Brazil. Thanks for this wonderfull content.😍😍🌍
Bad politics broke Brazil, not Car Wash. There's a good reason those unemployed people are having such a hard time to find a job.
car wash is just one of the reasons , the video doesn't show all of the scandals
Corruption and money laundry, while undoubtedly bad, aren't enough to break a country, but bad management is. Brazil's precarious situation is the result of bad administration, scandals are just the icing on the cake.
Actually it's 14 milion people unemployed in brazil.
@@Eichro Petrobrás was only one of the scandals. Corruption was everywhere. When the government puts its hand there was another fat tip. In some cases, that we know, contracts where generated only to handout dirty money, and the tip was 30% of the total price of the contract. This occurred for a decade, at least. The class of politicians broken my country.
@@TheKleyb car wash was not a reason. Corruption was
Do you know who's the president now?? hahaha Brazil it's like a bad joke
Mexico, Columbia, And Cuba have some of the most messed up stereotypes about them
Colombia*
you mean about Brazil? i dont get it, you are saying this countries have messed up stereotypes about Brazil? pls explain i'm brazilian and curious lol
@@MariaFernandazz some nations are like Pokémons, only repeat the nationality. "I'm Brazilian, I'm Brazilian". Funny. (I'm from the same country too. But it doesn't matter).
They sure do. I’ve been to all 3 several times each.
ajua ajua taco
Vox, let me subtitle the video in Portuguese! It shows here I can't!
They will probably add it as they did with yesterday's video
Erick Graziani For foreign videos they let bilingual fans subtitle it :)
@@ErickTG Not yet done :s
When coruption hits Brazil, people go to jail. When coruption hits America, people get slaps on the wrists.
Man(things still a mess). We are so pissed off with corruption that some of us see corruption as War crime or Humanitarian crime.
if you think USA is worse than latin america at any aspect you must seriously be deluded and dangerously ignorant. Too much leftist propaganda for you bubble boy
Theres no jail for corruption here. If there was, the congress would be empty!
Man, at least your democratic system isn't doomed. Go out and make some protests!
Here on Brazil we have lots of people that are not in jail (yet, god bless us) but we are trying to do it, our democracy is falling but I'm sure that we can handle the situation to do a better place for us :3
And now Lula is president again. Brazil's doomed.
É o que digo, brasileiro tem memória fraca, esquecemos tudo o que aconteceu há 4 anos atrás...
@@gcferr prefiro um lixo do que um ladrão
And Vox makes a video putting Lula as the world savior. Not only brazilians have short memories...
a verdade foi estampada... Lula foi preso sem provas e foi um golpe contra o nosso país... éramos líderes na construção civil...@@gcferr
Videos like these make people think - more of it please.
I'm Brazilian and I learned more about the latest corruption scandals in my country in this video than trough Brazilian media coverage. Congratulations on this excellent job.
Ninguém liga
Ninguém liga.
Nobody cares.
I'm Brazilian and I would love to see more videos like that
Very good!!!
i have to ask you as a native brazilian. How dangerous is rio de janeiro really for an European Dutch citizen (me)? because i would love to visit it. And is brazil really THAT corrupt and dangerous? i mean sure i can read about it and watch youtube videos about it that tell me stuff. but i rather ask a native brazilian on how it really is.
Ready for Round 2 mates?
In the Philippines, 15,000, 000,000 Philhealth fund went missing and no one was acquitted. Not even a single action of the government was done.. 😬
I lived in Brasil for a couple years when this was happening and what's showed in the video is pretty accurate. Most of the people there are just having a hard time even supporting their families. Lots of them eat only eat rice and beans because they can't afford adding anything to it. Most of the Brazilian people love their culture/country but hate the government.
I am curious how that government was established? Who elect the government? Is Brazil government elected by Chinese or Japanese?
@@doenjangstew4438 It's through voting
@@victorBrapp And now we ant to vote back into power the man arrested for this, god have mercy.
@@doenjangstew4438 The problem is that education here is low, which makes the population an easy target for politicians to deceive them with false promises
Love the style and art direction of the info graphics. Also good editing .
This is why education system is the most important. When we taught and nurture our children a good values and sense of shame of doing the wrong things, they will surely not doing the wrong things. Apart from education itself. These good values and attitude must be taught and nurture to them from a really young age.
Nah, power corrupts even the most pure and humble men, education is not in off.
But still, I don’t disagree education is very important
This story inspired "The Mechanism" movie . Just finished watching it , it Explains this situation well . Much love to Brazil 🇧🇷 from Kenya 🇰🇪 ❤️
8:23 "Operation Carwash is a blessing and a curse". Well, let me quote Margareth Tatcher for you "Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine?"
Míriam Tremblay milk snatcher
Explain
The Government should have minded their own damn business.@@youaintalivegaming8580
I bevelie the analogy you used couldn't be more fitting. And I'll use another: You can't make an omelette without cracking some eggs. So far, the new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is doing a fantastic job despite his opposition attempt everything they can to stop him and keep things as they were while the previous presidents were in charge. It's a slow process, but good results are already being felt by Brazilians in these first three months with the new president. If _Car Wash_ never unveiled all of this corruption, it is highly likely that Brazil would end up in a similar situation as Venezuela finds itself, now. Projections estimate that within the next five years or so, money reserves would run out and then the country would go completely bankrupt. We have high hopes that things will improve, now.
Lava jato e medicina são duas coisas muito diferentes
As a Brazilian, I can testify the damage this sistemic corruption has brought us. Whoever the new president will be, he's gonna need to change the whole country or things will keep going downhill. Some dark days are ahead
Augusto Oliveira that’s why we were right not to elect the guy that was trying to bring it all back :)
I once read about this as operation car wash. The reach and scale of corruption is mind boggling
And they didn't all the job.
Unfortunately, some political groups were protected.
Unfortunately the STF (the Brazilian Supreme Court) freed Lula and he was reelect, with total support of the press and TV media, judges of supreme and election courts.
In Brazil, the crimes compensates.
Now that's some serious corruption!
Never knew these things about Brazil, the more you know, eh?
al hassan mola where are they lying according to you here?
@@alhassanmola6182 which part??
al hassan mola It's true that Vox does alot of biased political videos, but I'm pretty sure they weren't biased in this video.
But yeah the scientific videos are really good.
@@alhassanmola6182 i agree with u
ikr, I was surprised that this video was actually NOT biased at all.
Argentina: you've seen nothing yet son.
They put Lula again. We need help
Muitos de nós brasil não temos orgulho de dizer q somos brasileiros por toda corrupção e escandalos que ocorrem no país
I'm from brazil and I'm not proud of our country because of corruption!
I'm Brazilian and I read all about operation car wash and how it worked. It's absolutely frightening. We, working class, are totally screwed. Nowadays, there's a high rate of unemployment, one of the lowest salary increase in 20 years and people are either faithless about our disgraced government (that's my case) or they direct they hatred towards parties and politicians instead of focusing on the real problem and possible solutions for our country. Believe in me: it has been depressing living in Brazil.
Wow. These are my people! It breaks my heart to be poor. I wish I had the money to make a difference
Work hard and you can make a difference without needing millions. Thats what I like to think
And guess what? Al of them are back to the government!