Brazil - Brazil judge halts Sao Paulo airport terminal work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14892854

Interesting that the order was to halt work..... I wonder if its not in the best interests of Brazil to continue work while at the same time look into the details of the non bid process... after all, these contracts are paid out over time so there is plenty of room to correct and compensate payments if the inquiry finds there was hanky-panky.....

This is yet another political power play, probably nothing more. There is a lot of money riding on the selection process and the losers always feel entitled to scream corruption whether there was of, improbably perhaps, was not. The judges are hardly impeccable themselves.

The judges are hardly impeccable themselves.

I fear that this is a trait that we MercoSur brothers shamefully share... :(

I fear that this is a trait that we MercoSur brothers shamefully share... :(

President Dilma is trying hard and is dismissing cabinet members who are involved with corruption. I applaud her, but we have soo far to go. It seems only Chile among Southern Cone countries has a decent governmental process.

President Dilma is trying hard and is dismissing cabinet members who are involved with corruption. I applaud her, but we have soo far to go. It seems only Chile among Southern Cone countries has a decent governmental process.

Sounds like her PR office. She appointed the ministers who have been forced to resign. The evidence of corruption has come largely from the media, not from any digging by Dilma. She resisted strongly when calls were made for her chief of staff to resign and it took a while for any of them to resign (and they were allowed to resign, all-- as they would in the U.S.-- claiming innocence but saying they needed to resign to clear their good names). That chief of staff was recently applauded at a meeting of the ruling PT party. Charges about the Minister of Tourism were circulating publicly for a long time. Apparently her folks are saying that the large number of ministers being forced to resign shows just how efficient her administration is at rooting out corruption. Police departments could use the same logic when crime rates go up ("There isn't more crime-- we're just more efficient at finding what crime there is"). It is true that corruption does not belong to just one political party.

GRU has to be the worst airport I've ever had the displeasure of using.

Spent over one hour in a hot and crowded subterranean passage called immigration last week. For a country that's supposed to have the best economy in S America the airport is a bloody disgrace.

President Dilma is trying hard and is dismissing cabinet members who are involved with corruption. I applaud her, but we have soo far to go. It seems only Chile among Southern Cone countries has a decent governmental process.

We could use some of this with our local government... :rolleyes:

We could use some of this with our local government... :rolleyes:

SoCal has a good perspective too. President Dilma has had a few nudges. She has done things to clean up though, something heer predecessors have not done, even when pushed.