The New York times reported on October 9, 2012 about the corruption
in the judicial system in Brazil and how the courts are now coming down hard on
those officials that are caught for corruption. The media in Brazil is what has
pushed the water over the top by relentlessly pushing the problem and finally
getting recognition for that fight against corruption in such a corrupted
country. The trail at hand is leading to
some of the congressmen, members of the governing party and senior officials;
many of which work with the very popular presidents. The Supreme Court has
already found more than 20 of the 38 defendants in the case guilty of money laundering,
misuse of public funds and accepting cash for votes. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
refused to admit that the vote-buying scheme giving no extreme certainty about
what happened or could have happened. Some say the trial shows that Brazil’s organizations
are functioning with strength and that the justices could have taken the easy
way out by not saying anything or just pushing it out of the way so no one
would know about the problems. The Brazilian
courts are more often to ridicule than to praise and also with their judges they
pay handsomely and have great leeway to exert their influence.
This is related to the world because corruption is a big
problem in many countries judicial system and even though these counties try to
push it all under the carpet it always comes out. By Brazil stepping up and knuckling
down on corruption they are trying to get to a better judicial system. Brazil
is known for its corrupt ways and by them starting to work on it will go off to
others to start the works on corruption. Corruption is the leading reason why judicial
systems are not trusted and by eliminating it the trust will eventually come
back into the system.
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