Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The biggest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history" video.

  1. Just so people really understand the scope of the corruption, Lava-Jato is currently in it's 52nd stage, 4th year since the investigation started, each stage potentially having multiple cases like Comperj and Itaboraí, and the investigation is far from over. It isn't a single city, a single project, a single political party, a single area, a single case, a single private company... it's quite literally a network that involves the majority of the biggest private companies in Brazil, politicians from almost every political party, cities in all regions of brazil, with all manners and variations of corruption schemes. And here's the kicker: This is only for the stuff directly or indirectly related with the initial Petrobras related scheme. Despite spanning all that, it's still only the stuff related to Petrobras and subsidiaries. It is only one case in a multitude of others. There are tons and tons more of other corruption schemes coming to light that are not Lava-Jato related. The reason why international press covers Lava Jato is because it's a highly organized, concise, and current case. It is symbolic, representative. But corruption schemes similar to the one unveiled by Lava Jato are numerous and several of them are just as big. So, everything you just watched in this video is like a tiny percentage, of a scheme that is probably still a tiny percentage of the total of corruption schemes in Brazil. Can you imagine that? A political system where quite likely more than half the politicials all are involved with some level of corruption one way or the other. My hometown had 7 of the 9 city councilmen arrested on corruption charges, right before an election. The other two had suspicions of involvement but there wasn't enough proof to put them in jail. It's a mid sized touristic city. For lack of candidates, several of them were re-elected. They had to leave their jail cells to go to their Induction Day, take cuffs off to sign the papers officializing their positions, and then go straight back to jail. It's highly representative of what has been happening throughout the country. Before Dilma, there was one president that was impeached due to yet another huge corruption scandal back in the early 90s with all sorts of sordid details - ex-president Collor. He initially basically fled the country and was banned for several years from politics. Well, guess what? He returned, was elected a senator just 16 years after his shameful and highly negative kick in the butt, then he became a governor, and then he was caught and arrested yet again involved in the Lava-Jato scheme. Only this time he was small fry. The corruption scheme is so huge that it puts his original impeachment scandal to shame. With that you start understanding how the heck a country that's almost as big as the US, that pays some of the highest total tax per capita and has some of the most aggressive importation taxes in the world (we usually have to pay from 60 to over 100% of imported product price in taxes) can be so poor and underdeveloped. Brazil is a very rich country with a very hard working class that is overburdened by taxes and bureaucracy, with public money drained with corruption schemes, a political system that is rotten to the core where corruption is institutionalized and inseparable, and all manners of public services underfunded, underpaid and in shambles. Everything related to government in Brazil works at 5 to 10% capacity because all the rest is either stolen by politicians, or highly mismanaged. We never had a real democracy here. It's a corruptocracy. It's unending. There is no hope. People who think something will change after the next election that ends tomorrow is living under an illusion. Every single president we've ever had after the military dictatorship promissed to end corruption. The military dictatorship itself promised to end it and was just another one among the corrupt govenments. Collor promised it, a flagship of his campaign, literaly. Lula promised it, using the middle and upper class and "elites" as scapegoat to corruption. Dilma promised it, as continuation of what Lula did in his years, which we all know by now that only served to deepen and entrench corruption even more. Now both Haddad and Bolsonaro are promising the same thing. I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad. And just so people know, it might look good that at least people are getting arrested for their crimes. But the truth is, way more people are not being arrested even with an overabundance of evidence against them. The first guy who was arrested under the Lava Jato investigation is already free. He got out because of good behavior after just 1/3rd of his total sentence, because you see, the jail, law and justice system are already compromised to favor white collar criminals. Lula among several other convicted and arrested corrupt politicians have key people working inside Brazil's justice system and high courts attempting every single way possible to free them up. We have judges openly affiliated to the workers party that tried slipping up a bail order to free Lula. And now we have a candidate for presidency (Haddad) that was the former Lula defense lawyer who is running on a campaign to free Lula. He only entered the presidencial race because Lula couldn't run. So you see, there is no way out of this. Corruption is so ingrained into brazilian politics and in turn in brazilian society, institutions, and even private businesses that people have no hopes anymore. People who have worked and dedicated their entire lives to see most of their money and investments stolen by the people elected to protect it. It is a sad thing to see so much human potential wasted for nothing. Brazil is a country located in very priviledged lands. We almost have no natural disasters here to talk about. Most of the country have no snow season. We have the amazon rainforest down here. We have people living in the worst conditions imaginable still finding room for happiness. And yet, we a bogged down by this exploitive sordid politics. Such a shame.
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