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The Guardian.

Hi, this is Jonathan Wads.

I'm currently global environment editor.

I used to be Latin America correspondent,

and it was in that latter post that I wrote the piece that you're now about to listen to.

This is a story about operation car wash,

the biggest investigation that Brazilian authorities have ever, ever conducted into corruption.

And the biggest scandal that has erupted in Brazil, certainly in the last 20 to 30 years,

perhaps ever, was the scandal that brought down the president that led to the arrests of

several other very prominent politicians that entangled some of the biggest companies in the country,

and then spread across the region. So it was an illustration of the really the dirty underbelly

of Brazilian politics. And at first people were delighted that this had been revealed that

something was being done, that the police and the prosecutors and the judges

who conducted this investigation were public heroes.

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