Encouragingly, political leaders’ attempts to leverage the tournament for personal gain tend to end in failure

Front-runner for October’s presidential election may be jailed within a week

The president, accused of involvement in bribery scheme, saved by 21 abstentions

Suellen Machado and Alexsandro Ribou left Brazil in the midst of a deep political crisis

Prosecutors claim Workers’ Party colleagues involved in €400m bribery scheme

Former minister Geddel Vieira Lima detained as part of ongoing corruption investigation

Vote in congress could see controversial Michel Termer removed from office

Further charges including obstruction of justice expected to follow this week

Michel Temer survives vote on mandate and maintains he is victim of conspiracy

Ruling allows Michel Temer retain office but he remains subject of corruption investigation

Brazil’s supreme court releases plea-bargain testimony that implicates president

Leader fights for political life over link to payments bound for jailed colleague

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s new film put Brazil’s political elite in a panic and was accused of shaming the nation. He was so delighted, he put it on the posters

Leaks show that Lula, Rousseff and five cabinet ministers among those facing investigation

Political leaders across South America now being dragged into corruption inquiry net

Michel Temer’s cabinet chief steps aside on ‘health grounds’ after illicit fundraising claim

Eike Batista, once world’s seventh richest person, wanted on corruption charges

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Michel Temer sinking under weight of Petrobras graft scandal and rage over austerity