Jair Bolsonaro has given up on his anti-graft crusade
The president is breaking his main campaign promise
IF THERE IS one thing voters wanted from Jair Bolsonaro when they elected him Brazil’s president last October it was to end corruption. When he was a right-wing congressional backbencher, his fulminations against “os corruptos” helped make him famous. In his inauguration speech on January 1st he promised to “free the country from the yoke of corruption”.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Caving on corruption”
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