Questão 57 - FIP-Moc Saúde 2016/2

The SuperMoro

 

“The judge, or SuperMoro as he is being referred to by Brazilians, has reignited the flames of a former Brazilian tradition: lynching,” one critic, Eliane Brum, wrote in a newspaper commentary.

 

Legal scholars say Mr. Moro belongs to a new generation of worldly, well-educated judges and lawyers who came of age during the post-dictatorship period, view themselves as beholden to no politician, and enjoy career protections that empower them to act without fear of reprisal.

 

A formative lesson for Mr. Moro and others of his generation was Italy’s Clean Hands Operation of the early 1990s, in which a nationwide corruption probe involving thousands of public figures resulted in a massive political purge.

 

Whatever lies ahead in Brazil’s turbulent political season, Mr. Moro’s colleagues don’t expect him to give in.

 

“He is not influenced by criticism,” said a person close to Mr. Moro. “It is like he wears a suit of armor. He is undisturbed.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles

 

It is stated in the article that Mr. Moro views himself as someone who: