Pedro Affonso Collor de Melo (14 December 1952 – 19 December 1994) was the brother of former

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

ian president

Fernando Collor Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (; born 12 August 1949) is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachment trial by the Brazilian Senate. Collor ...

. Working for the Collor family's newspaper Gazeta de Alagoas, Pedro Collor gained prominence when he made a series of accusations against his brother, who was then president. The allegations include corruption, and drug use. Pedro Collor's revelations helped precipitate his brother's downfall in 1992. Pedro Collor died of brain cancer in 1994.

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>Interview in Portuguese to Veja magazine.

>Interview in Portuguese, to Brazilian TV. 1952 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Brazilian businesspeople People from Maceió Brazilian whistleblowers {{Brazil-business-bio-stub