Brazilian corruption scandal

Brazil’s Supreme Court on April 28 ordered an investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro after popular Justice Minister Sérgio Moro resigned and accused him of firing the country’s Federal Police chief in an attempt to interfere with investigations....

Melvyn Levitsky, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil (1994-98) and a professor of international policy and practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, writes “Brazil: No longer the country of the future?” for The Conversation.Levitsky, who...

“All this has the feel of a telenovela, the soap operas so popular in Brazil,” Melvyn Levitsky, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil, told the press this week in a story about efforts to impeach Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff, in the midst of a...