As empreiteiras e a política externa brasileira no governo Lula III: uma possível reinternacionalização?

A LEPEB-UFF bulletin (Dec. 2023) argues that, through the process of disqualification of the contractors, accentuated after 2016 and during the Bolsonaro government, they lost practically all international competitiveness and that the difficulties also come from the interruption of BNDES financing and Chinese hegemony in markets in Africa and Asia; the text reproduces a statement by President Lula (March 2023) that Lava Jato could have arrested a businessman and left the company operating.

Source: As empreiteiras e a política externa brasileira no governo Lula III: uma possível reinternacionalização? — ORBIS Bulletin, LEPEB-UFF, vol. 1, no. 4, Dec. 2023 · Full text (pp. 15–17 of the bulletin) · open original ↗

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Limitations: Qualitative analysis, without a series of revenues or contracts; the author acknowledges external factors (China, the end of regional integration). The Lula quotation is secondhand (Spechoto, 2023). The search for the contractors' positions in the ENR ranking was blocked (HTTP 403).

In March 2023, President Lula stated, according to the LEPEB-UFF bulletin, that Lava Jato could have arrested a businessman but left the company operating, and that the country was left without engineering companies for large works.

Excerpt: “O que não pode é quebrar a empresa como quebrou.”

Source: As empreiteiras e a política externa brasileira no governo Lula III: uma possível reinternacionalização? — ORBIS Bulletin, LEPEB-UFF, vol. 1, no. 4, Dec. 2023 · Bulletin, p. 17, Lula quotation apud Spechoto (2023) · open original ↗

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Limitations: Quotation reproduced by the bulletin, without an official video or transcript opened; the one in another entry in the collection should check the original.

The LEPEB-UFF bulletin records, citing O Globo of March 12, 2024, that the government began negotiations with seven companies with Lava Jato leniency agreements (six public-works contractors) to reduce the debts under those agreements, which would total R$8.2 billion.

Source: As empreiteiras e a política externa brasileira no governo Lula III: uma possível reinternacionalização? — ORBIS Bulletin, LEPEB-UFF, vol. 1, no. 4, Dec. 2023 · Bulletin, p. 15 and references (Agostini, 2024) · open original ↗

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Limitations: Secondhand information: the O Globo article was not opened (paywall not tested). The R$8.2 bn amount differs from other leniency totals; check in another entry in the collection.