Following the onset of the Lava Jato scandal in 2014, Brazil became a focus of anti-corruption enforcement but then activity slowed as the Brazilian political winds shifted. Now, the confluence of enforcement trends in the U.S. and Brazil has brought the country back into the spotlight, particularly with the U.S. Department of State’s announcement that it will be designating two Brazilian criminal organizations as foreign terrorist organizations. Just before that announcement, the Anti-Corruption Report sat down with Adriana Dantas, a partner at Lefosse Advogados, who will be speaking at the American Conference Institute’s 14^th Summit on Anti-Corruption, Integrity and ESG in Brazil in June 2026, to discuss the current state of affairs in her country. See “The Impact on Latin America of Designating Cartels As FTOs” (Jan. 14, 2026).