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Sérgio Moro, a Courageous Judge

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Brazil Supreme Court Ruling a Blow to Corruption Probe

Brazil Supreme Court Ruling a Blow to Corruption Probe



FILE - A set of inflatable dolls in the likeness of former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in prison garb and Judge Sergio Moro as a superhero hang on a line during a protest against corruption and in support of the Car Wash investigation in Rio de Janeiro, March 26, 2017.



Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corruption cases involving illegal campaign donations should be handled by electoral courts, a move that some prosecutors warned could hurt their groundbreaking crusade against graft.
Six justices on the nation’s top court cast votes in favor of sending to electoral courts all cases involving politicians who use money gained through corruption or money laundering for campaigns, rather than having them heard by federal criminal courts. Five justices opposed the decision.
Prominent federal prosecutors warned that could unwind the five years of work carried out during the landmark “Car Wash” corruption investigation, which has sent scores of powerful politicians and businessmen to jail in the world’s biggest graft probe of its kind.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leaves for the cemetery to attend the funeral of his 7-year-old grandson, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, March 2, 2019.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leaves for the cemetery to attend the funeral of his 7-year-old grandson, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, March 2, 2019.
Many illegal campaign donations
Many of the Car Wash convictions, including that of imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, involved illegal campaign donations as an aspect of the case. Prosecutors argue that could open the door for Lula and other convicts to ask the top court to annul their sentences and send their cases to dedicated electoral courts.
“For those who have committed these crimes, this will really be a prize,” Deltan Dallagnol, the lead prosecutor overseeing the Car Wash investigation, said in a written statement.
“Defense lawyers for these people will argue their crime was related to illegal campaign financing ... to move the case to electoral courts and lessen the chances of a successful investigation and serious punishment.”
Senator Olimpio Gomes, a strong ally of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected on an anti-corruption platform, tweeted just after the decision that he had already introduced a bill to reverse it. The bill would “guarantee the fight against organized crime, corruption and impunity,” he said.
Others backed the majority in the Supreme Court ruling, saying their argument adhered to the Brazilian constitution.

Former Judge Sergio Moro participates in an anti-corruption conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 23, 2018.
Former Judge Sergio Moro participates in an anti-corruption conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 23, 2018.
‘Not prepared’
Brazil’s unique electoral justice system is made up of a rotating cast of state and federal judges that handle an array of campaign disputes surrounding local, state and national elections every two years.
Critics argue that makes them less prepared than federal criminal courts to address the country’s political graft schemes uncovered in recent years.
Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who before taking his government post was the federal judge who spearheaded the Car Wash trials and sent Lula to jail, said Wednesday that the Supreme Court sending the cases to an electoral court would be a blow for the country’s push against impunity.
“Electoral courts ... are not prepared to judge more complex crimes, such as money laundering and corruption,” Moro said.
Carlos Melo, a political scientist with Sao Paulo business school Insper, agreed with Moro’s assessment of the electoral courts. However, he said the constitution clearly states that crimes connected to illegal campaign financing must be judged by electoral courts.
“Will this hurt the Car Wash investigation? Sure, it is a blow. But the prosecutors have ridden a wave of wins, jailed powerful figures like Lula, and there is the sense they want to have everything go their way,” Melo said.
If Brazilians want to make prosecutors’ work easier, they will have to find other ways, he said.
“It is now up to Brazilian society to pressure lawmakers and demand changes to the law,” he said. “Or they can demand that the electoral courts are strengthened so they can deal with these types of cases.”

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The transformation of Juan Guaido, Venezuela's self-declared president





Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)Juan Guaido spent his entire adult life living under the promises of a socialist utopia, first under Hugo Chavez, then Nicolas Maduro. Now as he battles for Venezuela's presidency, the 35-year-old has adopted the early campaign slogan and stylings of a US president.
"Can we do it?" He roared to a vast crowd in the capital, Caracas last Saturday.
"Yes we can!" They shouted back, their right hands held high as they joined him in pledging a swift and peaceful transition to democratic presidential elections.
    Intentionally or not, there's a lot of Barack Obama about Guaido, a former industrial engineer, current head of Venezuela's National Assembly and self-declared president of the nation.
    Guaido has adopted the former US president's white open-neck shirt and suit combo, and shares his broad smile.
    He's good with a crowd, ploughing his way to the podium at a recent rally through adoring fans and hopping over barriers with a youthful ease that might rekindle memories of his days as a student activist in Caracas' Catholic University.
    And perhaps most important, he's managed to bend the rage that many Venezuelans feel at their collapsed economy, crumbling social service, food shortages and astronomical inflation into something more powerful -- hope.
    "It's something that we've always told him. When Obama became president, we told him 'You walk like Obama," Guaido's mother Norka told CNN. "Obama roll up his sleeves, and [Guaido] also does that, but it's not like he's mimicking Obama," she added.
    "Juan has emerged and he is surprised by it because he did not imagine he'd be president even for an interim period," said Roberto Patino, a senior aide to Guaido who will soon be running Guaido's humanitarian relief effort.
    "But we've seen what this government has done and we're all trying to do something about it," he added. "For the first time in many years, there is a kind of hope that we'll get new presidential elections."
    Guaido at the National Assembly in Caracas in 2017, after clashes with police during a demonstration.

    Juan Guaido's political awakening

    Asked what was most irritating about Guaido, his wife Fabiana admitted he could be a little bottled-up. "I think his strength, the strength that he also transmits, sometimes does not allow anything to break him, and maybe blocks many feelings," she said. "And I believe this path has taken him to that, to take his feelings and grab them and keep them here, not let to them out, not to express them."
    But Guaido is "completely different' with their 21-month-old daughter, she said. "With her, he expresses himself maybe different from what we see when he is on the streets. We see a man with great strength, and with his daughter you see such a great love."
    Norka describes the young Guaido, one of four boys, as gregarious, beach-loving and athletic. He frequently showed signs of leadership and an aptitude for mediation, she says. Though her family was not involved in politics, she says there has never been a particular party affiliation.
    Guaido's political awakening came, perhaps, as a result of his first confrontation with the failings of the state: His home town, La Guaira, was all but wiped off the map by the 1999 Vargas landslide.
    Guaido's home was destroyed, and several of his friends died in the disaster. "We lost everything, but thank God we survived. We were given a second chance at life," Norka said. "It scarred him deeply."
    Guaido was frustrated at what he perceived to be the government's failure, under Hugo Chavez, to adequately respond to the catastrophe. He believed the government ignored the plight of too many, failed to rehouse people, and was too slow to deal with the disaster. An estimated 19,000 people were killed by the landslide, according to the US Geological Survey.
    His political ambitions crystallized after university, when he joined a failed campaign to prevent Chavez's closure of Radio Caracas Television in 2007. He went on to join Leopoldo Lopez in founding the nationwide political party Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) in 2009. He joined the National Assembly in 2011, and assumed its chief leadership role in early January.
    Guaido at a press conference in 2015.

    Stand off on a global stage

    Guaido has a flair for theatrical politics. In 2015, he went on hunger strike for two weeks as part of a campaign to force the government to hold parliamentary elections.
    Now he is organizing humanitarian aid to be shipped to three crossings into Venezuela from Colombia, Brazil, and Caribbean islands, while incumbent president Maduro insists that the country does not need aid. In doing so, Guaido is challenging the military to either maintain a national blockade out of loyalty to Maduro, or let much-needed food and supplies finally enter the impoverished country.
    Maduro, who briefly detained Guaido in early January and recently hinted at doing so again, has a few dramatic tricks of his own. Last week, Guaido publicly accused the Venezuelan special forces, who are loyal to Maduro, of surrounding his family's home in an alleged intimidation attempt.
    "As humans, we have moments of weakness or when one thinks that something bad is about to happen," Fabiana, his wife, said. "Last week [when special forces surrounded their home] I did not feel fear, but rather frustration because of what could have happened to my daughter."
    Venezuela's constitution empowers the National Assembly leader to assume the presidency if there is "a vacuum of power." Guaido, who argues that Maduro's election to the presidency last year was illegitimate, claims that such a vacuum exists and that he has a constitutional mandate to fill it.
    The United States, much of the European Union, and most countries in South America have recognized Guaido as the legitimate interim president, and called for new elections in Venezuela. But Guaido has so far failed to secure the support of the armed forces, at least in public.
      Meanwhile Maduro, who enjoys the backing of the Supreme Court, has rejected demands for new presidential elections, offering "dialogue" instead. So far, that suggestion has been brushed off by Guaido's camp.
      This story has been updated to correct the spelling of La Guaira.










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