Prof. Priscila Villela is an International Relations Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) and vice-leader of the Transnational Security Studies Center (NETS).
Prescilla can be reached at: pvillela@pucsp.br.
Evidence collected by The Intercept revealed that Operation Car Wash, an anti-corruption investigation led by Brazilian Federal Prosecutors and the Federal Police from 2014 to 2021, received support from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The operation had a significant impact on Brazilian politics, including the undermining of the...