Great job by Brazilian authorities.
However, I wonder if they could come up with a more intimidating name for their crackdown than "Operation Chestnut Tree."
However, I wonder if they could come up with a more intimidating name for their crackdown than "Operation Chestnut Tree."
"chestnut" is a literal but not faithful translation of "castanheira", it should really be "Brazil nut tree", which is somewhat more imposing than the run-of-the-mill chestnut tree:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Castanheira_1.jpg
http://d3nehc6yl9qzo4.cloudfront.net/img/web_226731_36660.jp...
It can live for hundreds of years; its wood used to be in high demand, but nowadays it's considered endangered so it's illegal to cut down a Brazil nut tree.
Our Federal Police's operations have names that range from awesome ("Egyptian Plague") to truly bizarre ("Deja Vu", "Titanic"). All in all, Chestnut Tree is a fairly mild one.
And also even if they are convicted they probably will not stay in prison for long. Assuming the way those things happen now a days there.
Edit: I guess I'm not good at inferring gender of names :p
Population here in Brazil use to have a good trust relationship with Federal Police.. because of the things they´ve being doing.. with investigations that are even encarcerating some high profile politicians.. fighting drug cartels, etc..
The problem here is that the law is not as harsh as the US for instance.. and for things like this im sure it should be.. to give this criminals a good example of what can happen to them, no matter how rich they get with the scheme