The Olympics will start in a few weeks.  Normally, such an event would be a source of national pride and excitement.  Not really in Brazil! Brazil's president, Dilma Rouseff, is on the sidelines watching her corruption trial.  She was elected in 2014 in one of the most polarizing elections in the nation's history.  Her successor is also under investigation.    Frankly, it looks as though everybody in Brazil is under investigation these days.  The latest is the minister of tourism, a rather odd choice, given that the country expects lots of tourists for the Olympics: Less than two months before Brazil hosts the Olympics, the country’s tourism minister resigned Thursday, becoming the third minister in a month to step down amid a sweeping graft investigation of the state oil company Petrobras. Tourism Minister Henrique Alves was one of two dozen officials named in plea bargain testimony by a former Petrobras...(Read Full Post)