Odebrecht in Ecuador: “The Risks of Privatized Diplomacy”

The Great Smoking Hole of December 2006, at the future Pinheiros Station, Yellow Line, São Paulo subway.

A perigosa diplomacia das empreiteiras: The journalist and historian Elio Gaspari comments in today’s O Globo on the diplomatic incident with Ecuador.
Have you read about this? It involves an allegedly half-assed job delivered by Construtora Norberto Odebrecht in the [...]

Dantas’ Inferno: “Civita Civilly Offers to Cease SLAPPing Nassif”

Under Opportunity management, BrT paid large salaries to executives and advisors who performed no work for the company.
Investor expropriation — also known as self-dealing or tunneling — takes such forms as excessive executive compensation and perquisites, transfer pricing, insider trading, self-serving transactions, and outright theft. –Simeon Djankov, Rafael LaPorta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleife, “The [...]