Brazil, a country with deep-seated corruption, shook to its very foundation with the latest scandal that involved the country's president, Dilma Rousseff, and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who she appointed to her cabinet this past week to mitigate Lula da Silva's potential prosecution in the state-run oil company Petrobras's scandal.

The Petrobas scandal, which was uncovered back in 2013, highlighted the extent of the rooted corruption in Brazil. The company created a cartel and purposely inflated the worth of Petrobas contracts, which allowed them to charge exorbitant prices. Employees turned a blind eye while this occurred, while executives enjoyed the profits reaped from the scheme - over $5 billion. They bribed politicians to allow the perpetual cycle to continue indefinitely.

While the scandal was uncovered several years ago, it wasn't until the Supreme Court announced an investigation of dozens of politicians involved in 2015 that the Brazilian people decided to riot against the ruling class. Millions of angry Brazilians flooded the streets to protest the ongoing corruption and the weak government that refused to put an end to it. The widespread corruption that they protested dates back hundreds of years and has impacted generations of Brazilians and added to the already prevalent class divide. With income inequality at an all-time high and poverty an inevitable truth that many had to wrestle with, the Petrobas scandal was seem as the culmination of a lifetime of fraudulence.

According to UFC fighter Viscardi Andrade, the Brazilian people are tired of being ripped off by the people sworn in to protect them.

"Brazil is a beautiful country but the corruption is killing the whole country. There is a bunch of bad people running the country."

Andrade's clear exasperation is a minute reflection of the overall frustration that Brazilians are currently dealing with. Brazil represented one of the largest nations by population, yet the majority of the people who make up that number continued to suffer because of the casual attitude towards corruption.

"It is such a shame. We have a country rich in so many things and we have those people running the country and robbing us for a living."