The bullet train company is immortal – 02/04/2023 – Elio Gaspari

Marcelo Guerreiro Caldas, former director of Infra SA, was removed from the board of directors of the state-owned company, accused of having presented a false diploma to assume the position.

Maganos with weird degrees are part of life, but Doctor Marcelo shed light on the existence of the company. In bureaucratic terms, it is a “public company that was born from the merger of Valec Engenharia, Construções e Ferrovias SA with the Planning and Logistics Company (EPL) and is responsible for railway works, planning and structuring of projects for the transport infrastructure sector. “.

Translated, Infra is an avatar of the bullet train that would connect Rio to São Paulo in a few hours. The idea for the train came up in 1996, took shape ten years later and, little by little, turned to dust. The president of Valec, the state-owned company that would take care of its construction, spent some time in jail for other wrongdoings. With the train project dead, his bureaucratic interests reincarnated in the EPL. From his marriage to Valec, Infra was born.

In almost 30 years, Brazil has had governments from the center, from the left and from the right. For four years, Minister Tarcísio de Freitas was in charge of Infrastructure and was elected governor of São Paulo. He just couldn’t end the state of the bullet train.

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