The bridge would have connected Brazil and Paraguay.

The hopes that a prosperous Brazil could give a hand to the Argentine economy have completely vanished, and in its place, an inverse phenomenon appeared.

Marcelo Odebrecht, the Brazilian executive of Latin America’s largest construction conglomerate, has confirmed that his company financed the 2011 Peruvian presidential campaigns of then-candidates Keiko Fujimori and Ollanta Humala.