Fórum Defesa Brasil

Túlio escreveu:Só acho estranho que A ESQUERDA queira desmontar algum Estado, ela por definição quer é aumentá-lo, que eu saiba...

FHC defende privatizações e diz que não é contra venda da Petrobras
Publicidade
da Folha Online

O ex-presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso defendeu nesta terça-feira os resultados dos processos de privatização realizados durante o seu governo e afirmou não ser contra a privatização da Petrobras. E blá blá....

Dilma decide privatizar metade dos aeroportos
de Guarulhos, Campinas e Brasília
Sociedades serão formadas por, no mínimo, 51% de investidores privados

O governo federal decidiu privatizar a metade dos aeroportos de Guarulhos (SP), Viracopos (SP) e Brasília (DF). De acordo com o novo modelo, o governo federal fará uma concessão para que sociedades administrem os aeroportos.

O anúncio foi feito nesta terça-feira (31) pela presidente Dilma Rousseff, durante o anúncio do novo modelo a prefeitos e governadores de cidades e Estados que sediarão jogos da Copa do Mundo.

Segundo a Secretaria de Aviação Civil, as sociedades – chamadas de SPE (Sociedades de Propósito Específico) – serão formadas num mínimo de 51% por investidores privados. A Infraero (estatal que administra os aeroportos brasileiros) poderá ter no máximo 49% da sociedade que levará a concessão.

De acordo com o governo, a Infraero “participará das principais decisões da companhia” por ser “acionista relevante” das sociedades.

Segundo o ministro da secretaria, Wagner Bittencourt, as medidas visam atender a demanda dos aeroportos para os próximos anos, inclusive o período da Copa de 2014.

Ainda de acordo com a nota, o governo “continua os estudos para concessão de mais dois aeroportos: Confins (MG) e Galeão (RJ)”. As regras e critérios do edital para a concorrência pelas concessões deverão estar prontos até dezembro deste ano.

Após a reunião com os governadores, o ministro Orlando Silva (Esportes) não soube dar mais detalhes da concessão, como quanto tempo ela vai durar e de que maneira serão constituídas as sociedades.

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Leilão só será realizado em maio de 2012

Congresso quer passagem mais barata
A saída adotada pelo governo em prol das privatizações tem a ver com o atraso na entrega das obras. Segundo um estudo elaborado pelo Ipea (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica e Aplicada), órgão vinculado ao Ministério do Planejamento, dos 13 aeroportos com obras previstas para a Copa de 2014, nove não teriam condições de finalizar seus empreendimentos a tempo de receber os milhões de turistas que desembarcarão

Túlio escreveu:Calma, Guerra véio, daqui a pouco começas a convocar outra Marcha da Família...

soultrain escreveu:Na altura não tive muita paciência para responder, até compreendo que deve ter ouvido que a esquerda bla bla bla, de alguém, como não conhece minimamente a história de um país tão próximo e vai de encontro ao que tem formatado na sua cabeça, nem questiona.

Sabe porque o México esta usando as FAs para combater o trafico de drogas? É porque um pais do norte e uma tal de europa consomem drogas igual agua.

E ai? Quando é que vão colocar a osiosa OTAN para ajudar no combate as drogas porque essa policia de vcs não esta adiantando nada.

soultrain escreveu:Depreendo que o Brasil é um paraíso livre do flagelo da droga, né? O flagelo ai é bem mais brando que aqui. né?

Deixa-me pensar quando foi o ultimo tiroteio entre traficantes rivais aqui...

Se querem discutir, porque então a maioria da coca chegada à Europa passa pelo Brasil, onde tá esse exercito poliça raçudo????

Por amor de Deus, que discussão inútil...

Grandes argumento senhores, sim senhor...

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs
As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored

Ed Vulliamy
The Observer, Sunday 3 April 2011

On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of Mexico, as the sun was setting. Mexican soldiers, waiting to intercept it, found 128 cases packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100m. But something else – more important and far-reaching – was discovered in the paper trail behind the purchase of the plane by the Sinaloa narco-trafficking cartel.

During a 22-month investigation by agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and others, it emerged that the cocaine smugglers had bought the plane with money they had laundered through one of the biggest banks in the United States: Wachovia, now part of the giant Wells Fargo.

The authorities uncovered billions of dollars in wire transfers, traveller's cheques and cash shipments through Mexican exchanges into Wachovia accounts. Wachovia was put under immediate investigation for failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering programme. Of special significance was that the period concerned began in 2004, which coincided with the first escalation of violence along the US-Mexico border that ignited the current drugs war.

Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia, though not against any individual, but the case never came to court. In March 2010, Wachovia settled the biggest action brought under the US bank secrecy act, through the US district court in Miami. Now that the year's "deferred prosecution" has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear. It paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine.

More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn – a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product – into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business.

"Wachovia's blatant disregard for our banking laws gave international cocaine cartels a virtual carte blanche to finance their operations," said Jeffrey Sloman, the federal prosecutor. Yet the total fine was less than 2% of the bank's $12.3bn profit for 2009. On 24 March 2010, Wells Fargo stock traded at $30.86 – up 1% on the week of the court settlement.

The conclusion to the case was only the tip of an iceberg, demonstrating the role of the "legal" banking sector in swilling hundreds of billions of dollars – the blood money from the murderous drug trade in Mexico and other places in the world – around their global operations, now bailed out by the taxpayer.

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The office of the comptroller of the currency is still examining whether individuals in Wachovia are criminally liable. Sources at FinCEN say that a so-called "look-back" is in process, as directed by the settlement and agreed to by Wachovia, into the $378.4bn that was not directly associated with the aircraft purchases and cocaine hauls, but neither was it subject to the proper anti-laundering checks. A FinCEN source says that $20bn already examined appears to have "suspicious origins". But this is just the beginning.

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Hardly surprising, then, that Wachovia does not appear to be the end of the line. In August 2010, it emerged in quarterly disclosures by HSBC that the US justice department was seeking to fine it for anti-money laundering compliance problems reported to include dealings with Mexico.

"Wachovia had my résumé, they knew who I was," says Woods. "But they did not want to know – their attitude was, 'Why are you doing this?' They should have been on my side, because they were compliance people, not commercial people. But really they were commercial people all along. We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the biggest money-laundering scandal of our time.

"These are the proceeds of murder and misery in Mexico, and of drugs sold around the world," he says. "All the law enforcement people wanted to see this come to trial. But no one goes to jail. "What does the settlement do to fight the cartels? Nothing – it doesn't make the job of law enforcement easier and it encourages the cartels and anyone who wants to make money by laundering their blood dollars. Where's the risk? There is none.

"Is it in the interest of the American people to encourage both the drug cartels and the banks in this way? Is it in the interest of the Mexican people? It's simple: if you don't see the correlation between the money laundering by banks and the 30,000 people killed in Mexico, you're missing the point."

Woods feels unable to rest on his laurels. He tours the world for a consultancy he now runs, Hermes Forensic Solutions, counselling and speaking to banks on the dangers of laundering criminal money, and how to spot and stop it. "New York and London," says Woods, "have become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal and drug money, and offshore tax havens. Not the Cayman Islands, not the Isle of Man or Jersey. The big laundering is right through the City of London and Wall Street.

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Eu aposto que o consumo (seja quantidade, seja nº de usuários) de drogas na Europa Ocidental é inferior ao da América do Sul e muito inferior ao da América do Norte. E ai?