Tourist Guides Take Visitors to Famous Lava Jato Sites

02/20/2017 - 11h04

Across from the Federal Court of Paraná, travel agent Carla Mazzetti, 53, gestures at a second floor window. There, she has learned, lies the office of judge Sergio Moro, responsible for the Lava Jato cases.

"I'm a fan," she says. Mazzetti is one of five tourists who spent the morning on a "Lava Jato tour"-which includes, in addition to the forum, stops at the Federal Police headquarters, the Public Prosecutor's Office and even the prison of the Criminal Medical Complex.

The tour was started by a Curitiba agency that was tired of hearing requests to "see Moro" and "go to the prisoners" of the largest anti-corruption operation in the country.

"I was really scared," recounts businesswoman Bibiana Antoniacomi, who launched the tour last May. "The country was divided. But, it's important work; it's informative."

Nearly one hundred people have already completed the route-mostly tourists. "99% of them", she says, are in favor of Lava Jato.

The guide leads the tour, which lasts four hours, with the help of laminated illustrations. "The objective is not to explain Lava Jato, because everyone is tired of hearing that," says Flügel

The tour costs approximately US $63. At the end, participants receive a keychain with a picture of a handcuff and the inscription "Operation Lava Jato" as a keepsake.

Translated by SUGHEY RAMIREZ

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