Beef Scandal

If you live in one of the countries on Earth, you have a great chance to have eaten JBS' beef, (or pork, chicken, hotdogs, etc),
More than 200,000 employees, they export to over 150 different countries, not bad at all !
From 2007 after buying Pilgrim's Pride and aquiring Bertim, another Braziliam Beef Company, it started to grow with a business hunger of a Giant. Margerine, yogurt, cheese, pastrami, you name it , JBS has them all.
In Brazil dozens of large abbatoirs were bought, killing competition, strugling cattle farmers.
Ok, but how do they get so much money to buy companies like that, besides their profits ?
The answer is a Public Brazilian Bank called BNDES, that loaned the beef company more than R$30 billion ( US$1.00 = R$2.95). We are talking US$10 billion.
Ok, what beef and politics have in common ?
In 2002, they donated R$200,000, in 2006 R$19.7 million, in 2010 it was R$83million and last year, the amount of R$391.8 million was donated to 16 different political parties in Brazil.
There is no free lunch, not here not anywhere, more is about to come.

Corruption

I could go on and just describe corruption as it is in the dictionary, but I want to talk about it in Brazil in the recent years.

We are all stoned with the volume of money drawn from the public treasure through it official bank - BNDES, in a Government owned bank, Banco do Brasil, in an Oil State Owned company called Petrobrás and the rules of such gangs.
Brazil is getting access to  great number of evidences of scandals that at the end will sum a few trillions of Reais (Brazilian Currency). As it happens its people get more and more convinced to go out and protest.
If we had a parliamentarian government Ms. Roussef would long have lost her job and would definitely lead the police to jail her and her predecessor  Lula da Silva.
The veins of corruption here is irrigated by building companies, banks, black market currency dealers, oil company suppliers as they formed a cartel of companies responsible for financing the 3 past Presidential elections.as past elections.
We will go again to the streets on April 12, this time in a bigger event as we went in March 15. We want all bandits in Jail, no matter who.
andrerodini@hotmail.com