Odebrecht built Caracas's metro, a port in Cuba, and a generous chunk of Brazil's 2014 World Cup infrastructure, including stadiums. It also, apparently, built one of the most sophisticated corporate bribery operations in recorded history. The company's former CEO, Marcelo Odebrecht, received a 19-year prison sentence after being found guilty of paying more than $30 million in bribes to Petrobras officials in exchange for contracts. He and 76 — seventy-six — other Odebrecht officials then signed plea deals and began cooperating with investigators, which is the kind of organisational discipline one wishes the company had applied to not committing crimes in the first place. The revelations kept expanding. Odebrecht reportedly donated $48 million to the 2014 Brazilian presidential campaigns of both Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer, with Marcelo Odebrecht alleging part of that sum was illegal. Brazil's electoral court opened an investigation that carried the theoretical consequence of annulling the election result and removing Temer from office entirely. Both Rousseff and Temer denied all wrongdoing. The construction sector's relationship with Brazilian democracy, it turned out, was not merely contractual.