Built during the 1970s, the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant is full of superlatives: located in one of the largest waterfalls in the world, it is one of the largest dams built in history, its construction would have involved more than 40 thousand workers and concrete enough to build 210 stadiums the size of Maracanã. Famous by the current numbers are not small either, because only in 2024 their annual revenue exceeded the $ 3 billion mark.
Brazilians residing in the South, Southeast and Midwest regions are required, whose criteria for composition and definition are made to closed doors. Following the same rule, the details of what is done with this collection, as no one effectively oversees the entity, as TCU (Federal Court of Auditors), CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) and MPF (Federal Prosecutor) were barred by court decisions.
While to create an inspection body, it filed a public civil action against Itaipu seeking access to information that the entity considers “sensitive”: the nominal salary sheet, which has already been the subject of reporting of this Sheet because of the.
Using a juridical far-fetched, managers on the Brazilian side argue that Itaipu has a “sui generis” nature and that, believe me, “generates its own wealth” (sic) and would not be dependent on public resources. For them, it would be an “absurdity” to demand information from the binational entity, as the United Nations offices nor do they disclose the remuneration of their agents. The plant also claims that disclosing information could harm diplomatic relations with the.
Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used by the entity’s Paraguayan managers to deny access to information to their citizens. On the other bank of the Paraná River, the binational entity is also being processed. Given the recurring negative by the Paraguayan managers of Itaipu to provide access to minutes of collegiate meetings and inform what they do with the funds raised for “social purposes”, the Del Paraguay Communicators Society, along with other civil society organizations, has submitted a complaint to IACHR (Inter -American Commission on Human Rights).
Even agreeing that a binational entity can follow special rules to balance interests of the two countries, Brazil and Paraguay recognize in their constitutions the principle of publicity on government acts. In addition, the two countries are signatory to, which is assured in their article 13 the right to seek and receive information, whose content has already been recognized by the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Justicia, maximum instance of the Paraguayan judiciary.
A is not only a legal or institutional problem, but an affront to the citizenship of two sister peoples. Brazilians and Paraguayans have the right to know, oversee and participate in decisions about a heritage that belongs to them.
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