Fighting corruption no longer counts for anyone in Brazil

The country has had its worst vote since 2012 in the rate of perception of the corruption of international transparency, and this seems to be interested in anyone, an error that can have dramatic consequences for the Brazilian society. Years of your third term. The international transparency of NGOs (IT) told them that 15 mentions the word corruption.

It is an independent and global non -governmental organization that is dedicated to the fight against corruption and promotion of transparency all over the world, integrity and obligation as authority to take into account their actions.

For international transparency, Lula’s lack of interest for topics such as corruption and nepotism is symptomatic of the current approach to the subject in Brazil. If the topic continues to be seen as secondary, this could have dramatic consequences for Brazilian society, he warns.

On the one hand, the question of corruption disappeared from the Brazilian public debate, and this more than ten years after the investigations on the Lava Jato operation, which seemed a turning point to the fight against corruption in Brazil.

And corruption has increased again: in the latest report on it, Brazil has historically bad performance as regards the spread of corruption in the state, economics and daily life. Ten years ago, when Brazil obtained its best position in the ranking, the country was at the same level as Italy or Greece.

Today Brazil is in a much worse position among the main emerging economies compared, for example, in India or China, which are countries considered internationally with notoriously high corruption levels. Corruption can be even greater in Russia which in Brazil is not exactly a consolation.

Brazil has not been able to interrupt and reverse the tendency of the fall of corruption in recent years, after the end of Lava Jato’s investigations, observes it. Instead, corruption continued to spread in the state. This is particularly evident in the growing presence of organized crime in state institutions.

It observes significant arrest trips in the fight against corruption. For example, entrepreneurs, politicians and corrupt public employees already sentenced were subsequently acquitted of the judiciary, even if they confessed and admitted their crimes. And the judiciary has still erased billions of reais in fines.

The situation is not different in the legislator: the parliamentary amendments, which seriously limit the control and transparency of the public budget, have consolidated to the congress.

More surprisingly, this catastrophic relationship on corruption in Brazil received little attention: the only reaction of the government came from the Union General controller (CGU), which criticized the rate of perception of corruption (IPC) of international transparency as poorly reliable. “The index is based on research with specific groups, such as entrepreneurs, and does not represent the general perception of the population,” said the CGU. In short: Taverna conversation. “The use of the CPI to support the public debate can lead to distortions, fueling narratives that undermine trust in democratic institutions,” he adds.

We backwardness

The prospects that the fight against corruption in Brazil has taken up in the near future are small. The President of the United States Donald Trump has just suspended the application of the law on corruption practices abroad (FCPA), which forbids the US companies to corrupt foreign authorities. Trump claimed that the law compromises the competitiveness of US societies and undermines national security.

Before Trump, it was above all the United States that pushed the criminal punishment of corruption in the economic sector. If the “new sheriff” in Washington is no longer interested in fighting corruption, many governments around the world will follow the example of the good.

This is worrying because corruption is an important amplifier of social inequality: it deflects public resources, destroys equal opportunities and promotes a system in which the elites can guarantee their power and their privileges.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Brazil, according to an investigation by the World Bank, occupies seventh place in the list of countries with the highest income inequality – among the 195 countries.

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For over 30 years, the journalist Alexander Busch has been the correspondent of South America. Born in 1963, he grew up in Venezuela and studied economics and politics in Cologne and Buenos Aires. Busch lives and works in Salvador. He is the author of several books on Brazil.

The text reflects the author’s personal opinion, not necessarily from DW.

Source: Terra

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