Renan Santos: There are no functioning institutions left in Brazil.
Renan Santos: What is institutional order?
The idea that an STF minister, involved in a corruption scandal, 'owns' an inquiry — he has an inquiry that is his.
Renan Santos: And then he can add or remove people from the inquiry at his whim to punish those people.
Renan Santos: That he uses this illegal prerogative at a moment when he is being investigated in the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil's history only shows that Brazilian institutions no longer make any sense.