Episode
Supreme Court to Brazilians: “Follow the money” (preview)
- Podcast
- Explaining Brazil
- Published
- Nov 10, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 633
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Summary
Over the past decade, Brazilian lawmakers have steadily built up procedures to expand their powers over the purse. That has included increasing the overall volume of congressional grants; making a large share of them mandatory spending; limiting the Executive’s discretion over when to release those funds, and creating ways to erase transparency and traceability from the process. A perfect recipe for corruption, which has now trickled down to state and municipal levels. But the Supreme Court ...