Canning Insights

Venezuela slips towards outright default

No one disputes the fact that Odebrecht, one of the largest and most successful civil engineering groups in Brazil and Latin America, has paid bribes, or that it has done so on a massive scale. The disagreements now are about matters of detail, although the details themselves are critically important, including questions as to the number of politicians and other officials implicated. Also up for discussion is the much wider question of corporate governance and regulation, critically, the question as to what should be done to prevent other large companies from indulging in similar practices in future

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