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How to Get Brazil (And Latin America) Completely Wrong

By Brian Winter

Investors shouldn’t avoid countries with noisy anti-corruption campaigns – instead, they should consider betting on them.

It’s been yet another rough week for Brazil’s international image, with an Olympic mascot shot dead in an absurd accident and another national political figure dragged into scandal. But the biggest blow of all came from Declan Ryan, co-founder of the Irish budget airline Ryanair, who...

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