Automotive suppliers in Brazil stick together in hope of recovery

August 2016 marked the conclusion of a gruelling ten-month process for Brazil, when senators voted to throw President Dilma Rousseff out of office. The Workers’ Party Leader was suspended from duty in May 2016, accused among other things of manipulating the federal budget. Worldwide coverage of events has shone the spotlight back on wider corruption in the young democracy, which only shunned military rule in 1985 – members of Interim President Michel Temer’s cabinet have already resigned from office after being linked to a huge graft scandal at state-owned Petrobras.

Rousseff’s departure was widely anticipated, and a couple of hours prior to the announcement, Besaliel Bothelho, Chief Executive at Robert Bosch Latin America, described the vote as ‘a big day for Brazil’.