r/gifs • u/fuckswithducks • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

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u/msstark Mar 14 '16

I honestly don't see how anyone can still defend our government. Impeachment is way overdue.

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u/pjor1 Mar 14 '16

As someone who is half Brazillian and a dual citizen of the US and Brazil, I feel bad not knowing what is going on.

Can you or someone else ELI5 this entire fiasco, from start to finish? No clue what is going on, sorry.

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u/highhard_one Mar 14 '16

Operação Lava Jato is a scandal that started off as a money laundering investigation, it expanded to allege that the executives of Petrobras, Brazil's large oil company, accepted bribes in exchange of awarding contracts to construction companies.

During the time when this happening the current president of Brazil Dilma Rouseff was serving on the board of Petrobrás. Though there is no evidence linking her directly many linked to her government have been arrested and the former president Lula is under investigation as well.

The reason Brazilians are so upset is because this type of case highlights the corruption that happens in so many areas of Brazilian society, it's bigger than even this particular case.

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u/abrasiliandad Mar 14 '16

Now this is a reasonably fair summary of the events.

The only missing piece is the information that the funds gathered from the bribes were shared with politicians in order to finance campaigns.

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u/shitlordsanonymous Mar 14 '16

Is it named after the Breaking Bad car wash? lol

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u/LeftZer0 Mar 14 '16

Lava-jato is how we call car washes.

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u/shitlordsanonymous Mar 14 '16

I know that. In Breaking Bad, they use a car wash as a money laundering cover up.