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  • Here Comes The Judge

    Mac Margolis | Sep 5, 2007 03:19 PM

    Why does landlocked Bolivia have a navy?

    Why not? Doesn't Brazil have a justice system? 

    It's one of the oldest jokes on Latin America, and one that Brazilians know only too well. So this continent-sized nation wasn't exactly holding its breath last month when the Brazilian Supreme Court took up the corruption charges against former government higherups, who stand accused of trying to buy off half of the nation's congress.

    Joaquim Barbosa, Brazilian Supreme Court justice

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