Politics
If You Want to See Political Swamps Drained, Look to Latin America
Anticorruption prosecutions around the continent have swept up heads of state, businessmen, and billionaires.
Demonstrators raise their fists in the air during a protest in Rio de Janeiro.
Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg
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Americans who long for Washington’s political swamp to be drained must look wistfully upon Latin America.
Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week was sentenced to almost 10 years in prison for taking kickbacks. One day later, a former Peruvian head of state went to prison in a money-laundering probe. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the congress was discussing tougher anti-graft measures.