Odebrecht Mess Leaves Devastation Trail From Andes to Caribbean
- In Peru, Colombia, Dominican Republic politicians in trouble
- Spreading scandal so big that Peru’s GDP has been affected
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Trucks ascended to Braulio Pucllo’s pasture high in the Andes mountains five months ago and piled dozens of 5-ton steel pipes along a dirt track. Workers from a consortium led by builder Odebrecht told him they would lay them down and weld them together. He hasn’t seen the laborers since.
“We want them to come back and finish the job,’’ said Pucllo, 30, as the falling rain turned to hail and his herd of alpacas wandered among the pipes. “They’d still be here working if it weren’t for Odebrecht’s corruption. Anyone who took money from them belongs in jail.”