In Brazil, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been charged of being the “maximum commander” of a corruption scheme at the state-run oil company Petrobras. Lula was charged along with his wife and six others. He slammed the charges on Thursday, saying they were politically motivated. This comes after his successor, ousted President Dilma Rousseff, was impeached by the Brazilian Senate in a move she has denounced as a coup. Sixty percent of Brazilian lawmakers are currently under criminal investigation or have already been convicted of crimes ranging from corruption to election fraud.