Managing Latin America FCPA Risks at Customs
The agricultural trade press reports that Brazilian ports have a 60-day backlog of soybean shipments – about twice the usual delay – due to a record soybean crop. In Argentina, labor unrest has created...
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Argentines certainly value their sense of style. Unfortunately, however, they just lost official retail access to the Polo brand. Ralph Lauren Corporation has decided to wind down its operations in the...
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Latin America’s Top FCPA Stories of 2013
In the world of FCPA enforcement, 2013 was a big year. Some have pointed out, “After getting off to a slow start, with no official corporate FCPA settlements announced in the first quarter, 2013...
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“Don’t Bribe for Me, Argentina”: Corruption risks on the Río de la Plata
When I was working in Argentina in the late 1990s, I remember images of then-President Carlos Menem driving a red Ferrari. In response to criticism, he said, “I am going to leave this car as property...
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How CCOs Can Use the OECD Foreign Bribery Report
Last month, the OECD published its first Foreign Bribery Report, measuring transnational corruption based on data from the 427 foreign bribery cases that have been investigated, prosecuted, and...
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Guatemala’s Turn against Corruption… with help from the CICIG
The is a guest post from Juan Carlos Tristan, an attorney at BLP Legal in Costa Rica. Guatemala has been known for its history of oppression, extreme violence, and most recently political corruption....
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Surviving Shakedown Street: Rapid Escalation as a Remedy to Bribe Demands
A client shipping company recently experienced a bribe demand during a port call in a high corruption risk jurisdiction. For some time in the shipping industry, there had been discussions as to whether...
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