Thousands of housing activists rallied for days against Brazil’s finance minister, Paulo Guedes, in Brasília this week. They’re accusing him of enriching himself off the devaluation of the Brazilian real, even as inflation, gas and electricity prices have spiked and housing programs have been frozen. Guedes is one of the top Brazilians named in the release of the Pandora Papers for siphoning off millions of dollars into offshore accounts. Reporter Michael Fox has the story.
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