Lavajoto has changed some aspects brazil. The biggest is the firms that try to bribe politicians now face huge legal and financial punishments if they're caught. But fundamentally, there still remains a culture of corruption in Brazil. And although many of his rivals will be talking about lavo jiosto a lot, it's deftly the case that corruption was notimit one party or one person in the country.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from poverty—but was then convicted of corruption. Now he wants his old job back. Forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields, once widespread, is swiftly vanishing. And an old hypothesis confirmed: birds get more colourful the closer they live to the equator.
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