Examine Leadership Issues And Dynamics Related To The Current Events Developing In Brazil

Leadership Issues and Dynamics Related to the Current Events Developing in Brazil
Student Name:
Affiliated Institution:
Leadership Issues and Dynamics Related to the Current Events Developing in Brazil
When Lula Da Silva, the former president of Brazil left office at the start of 2011, the country was extensively viewed as South America’s gold standard for social progress and economic development. As he was leaving office, he handpicked Dilma Rousseff to succeed him. At the moment, with his successor having already faced trial and impeached, Brazil is largely regarded as an economic failure. Michel Temer, Rousseff’s successor and current president of the country, is also facing accusations of obstruction of justice and passive corruption. This paper examines the leadership issues and dynamics in relation to the events currently developing in this Latin American country.
Brazil is a country rich in cultural diversity, fertile lands, and natural resources but has been marred by bad quality leadership over the past few years. Leadership is understood as the ability to lead other people. A good leader in the society plays an integral role in the prosperity of regions, towns, areas or country that he/she leads. Any good leader is expected to possess such admirable quality and character traits as honesty, discernment, focus, experience, ethics and wisdom among many others (Grandy & Sliwa, 2017). A good leader also has integrity, which is defined as soundness of moral principles and uprightness of character (Rochford et al., 2017). The fact that recent presidents of Brazil have been accused of receiving bribes and one of them has actually been jailed for corruption, namely Lula Da Silva, demonstrates that these leaders clearly lack integrity.
Nothing better demonstrates the intricate web of leadership decay in the South America’s largest and most populous nation than Operation Car Wash, which is the sweeping probe into corruption. Started in the year 2015, this investigation did not implicate Dilma Rousseff directly. Even so, it unearthed corruption amongst a number of individuals who belong to her Worker’s Party, together with politicians from nearly all of Brazil’s many political parties. The corruption scandals increased a generalized mistrust in the political system of the country (Marina, 2017). The door was then open for Dilma Rousseff’s ousting, which was achieved in a period of just 8 months.
Operation Car Wash is thought to be the largest corruption case in the world. The scandal is so far-reaching that it may force President Michel Temer to resign considering that he has been mentioned recently for supposedly arranging and being paid millions of dollars in bribes. Even so, the president denies all the accusations, and his attorney claims that the president is too old to answer them. However, Temer was not the only president of Brazil being investigated. Rousseff, who was indicted before being removed from office in the year 2016, and Lula Da Silva, who was her mentor and forerunner, are also accused of receiving millions of dollars in corruption (Marina, 2017). Both Lula and Rousseff also deny the allegations. Lula faced graft charges related to supposed bribes that he rec...