IT IS not the first time an air crash has caused turmoil in Brazil. In 1992 a helicopter went down off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, killing Ulysses Guimarães, a towering political figure. His party was a driving force behind the impeachment of Fernando Collor, the president of the day. Eduardo Campos, a candidate in the presidential election in 2014, died in an aeroplane crash in August that year. Now an air tragedy has killed a justice of the supreme court, Teori Zavascki. He was one of five people who died when a private aeroplane fell into the sea not far from where Guimarães perished. His death may be the most consequential of the three.
That is because Mr Zavascki oversaw investigations into the Petrobras scandal, which has dominated Brazilian politics for more than two years. The scandal involves construction firms conspiring with Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, to funnel billions of dollars to parties and politicians. It led indirectly to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff as president last August (she was not directly involved, but her Workers’ Party was). Politicians, construction bosses and former...Continue reading
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