Untrue. I've lived in Arizona for a year; have you heard of sheriff Joe Arpaio? ...

tomc1985 · on March 6, 2018

Characters like Arpaio are relatively uncommon in lower levels of the US gov. Corruption in Brazil is endemic. Pretty sure theres a large difference.

US may occasionally see third-world-BS, but in many places elsewhere in the world it is a fact of life.

oh_sigh · on March 6, 2018

One could, but it would be a statement completely divorced from reality.

lbrito · on March 7, 2018

How so? I can cite a single corruption episode that trumps maybe 99% of the Brazilian corruption scandals.

40 billion USD in cash sent to Afghanistan by plane just "vanished". https://www.cnbc.com/id/45031100

For the sake of comparison, the largest corruption scandal of Brazil to this date revolves around 42 billion BRL, which is about 13 billion USD. http://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2015/11/pf-estima-que-...

Of course, one might argue "oh, but 40 bilion dollars in cash going missing is not corruption, it's just unfortunate/bad management/insert excuse here". "Corruption" is just one of those words of which the meaning changes depending on the object it refers to - it's always the other person's, never your own.