Word: argentina
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...piqued by a dinner in Winthrop House. While running the Harvard chapter of Amnesty International, he hosted Buenos Aires Herald Editor Robert Cox for dinner, and Cox told Bennett and his roommates about the detainment of reporters during the years of the “disappearances” in Argentina. After leaving dinner, Bennett aid, he knew he had to go to Latin America as a journalist...
...couldn’t hit Argentina with a dart,” he recalled. “His story was so inspiring that it was something that just knocked me out and sent...
...hadn't cooked the books, Parmalat would have posted losses every year from 1990 to the end. Instead, it posted profits, masking its problems with a mixture of fictitious transactions and aggressive acquisition; starting in 1992, the group began snapping up dairy and other companies in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Hungary and the U.S. "It was a reversal of logic," says Vito Zincani, the chief investigating magistrate in Parma. Usually, companies take on debt to grow. But in Parmalat's case, "they had to grow to hide the debt." The core of the fraud was a system of double billing...
...Latin American operations. He peppered the company with so many questions that cfo Tonna lost his temper. The requests for information are "offensive and ridiculous," Tonna thundered in a June 9, 2000, fax to Adolfo Mamoli, the Deloitte partner in Milan, and terminated Deloitte's Parmalat business in Argentina. Deloitte - which had taken over as Parmalat's worldwide auditor only the previous year - quickly backed off. The accounts were certified and Mamoli sent a terse e-mail to his colleague Villar. "For the future," he wrote, before contacting Parmalat on any issue, "you should contact me in advance to discuss...
...especially with someone like Irma Flaquer, who was from a country where human rights violations were not being widely publicized. As a journalistic figure, she is not that well known outside of certain circles, and was part of a smaller intelligentsia than in somewhere like Argentina or Brazil...