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University of Maryland, College Park Master’s in Translation and Localization Project Management Year 1 Course: COMM 762 The Rhetoric of Political Institutions Student Name: Nhantumbo, Danilo de Sousa UMD ID: 116352307 Date: 04/19/2019 Assignment: Thematic Reference Package Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................... 3 Who’s Who Compendium ....................................................................... 5 Institutional Map .................................................................................... 9 Primary Sources ................................................................................... 13 Secondary Sources ................................................................................ 46 Glossary .................................................................................................71 Webliography ....................................................................................... 85 Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Introduction As the people of Peru react in horror to the botched, yet successful suicide attempt of its former President Alan García, many in Brazil must be wondering how much more Operation Car Wash related information is still under wraps. Mr. García, is one of a great many South American leaders, public officials and private sector actors alike, to have fallen foul of Operation Car Wash investigations. This ongoing investigation focuses on corruption, bribery, pay-offs, manipulated attribution of government contracts, and perhaps most disturbingly, organized crime on a hitherto unknown scale in Brazil. As a translator, conducting the research required to collate the primary and secondary sources has been an immense challenge. I found it rather difficult to find parallel reading in many cases, but compensated by finding similar texts in other publications that covered the same subject matter. This often helped me find equivalent terms that I could then insert into the glossary. In the end, I used the following types of source documents: Primary: Press releases, indictments, a sentencing, a speech, websites. Secondary: Academic journal articles, encyclopedia entries, infographics, an investigative journalism article, news media articles, an online legal term database, a plea agreement, a tv series, a Council on Foreign Relations Report, and the Brazilian Senate Report on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment hearing. Perhaps if I had picked a theme with institutions that operate in my language pair of English and Portuguese, this project would have been easier. If I had focused on just the firms, Odebrecht and Petrobras, and picked another 2 global companies from Brazil, the likelihood of finding more parallel texts would have risen. These companies, being global, have shareholders and interested third parties paying attention from all over the world. It is no surprise that their websites offer English versions of many of their Portuguese posts. Further, these companies had a third language option on their websites, Spanish. I assume this is due to the fact that Brazil is surrounded by Spanish speaking countries, in which these large Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Brazilian companies operate extensively. For shareholder relations and internal communication, it makes sense for such firms to take on a broader linguistic perspective. However, all of the police reports, indictments and the sentencing were in Portuguese with no translation option available, as offered by Petrobras and Odebrecht. However, the subsequent press releases from Odebrecht and Petrobras contained plenty of the terminology displayed in the government documents, thus facilitating my understanding of the terms and insertion into the glossary. As much is it wasn’t a surprise to find this situation, considering the scale of this investigation, the Brazilian government should carefully consider having future documentation translated, which may aid future Department of Justice and Security and Exchange Commission work with Brazilian firms. From a professional perspective, this has been quite the revelatory project. Having spent months on this, I feel as if I have only scratched the surface of this investigation, which is ongoing and still shocking the world. I now understand the importance of understanding your subject matter in depth, to be able to translate the terminology from a holistic perspective, with all aspects of the investigation, not just the next word, being taken into account all times. Discovering that there are vast amounts of legal and political documentation in both languages at my disposal, motivates me to continue to work with translations of this nature. For one it is an absorbing investigation on a human level, but secondly, as a translator, I have realized that the discovery of the true meaning and cognate of a given term in very specific legal context is as challenging as it is rewarding. I selected this theme due its wide-reaching legal, corporate and geo-political scope, and because it is perhaps the biggest news story coming out of the Portuguese speaking world in some time. Over the course of my research however, I found something larger than a news story, or even a corruption scandal. I found a fascinating array of documents, that I organized chronologically, which helped me better understand how to map out my research and find “parallels” in a somewhat unorthodox manner. It has been a lesson in resourcefulness, which will directly improve my service delivery’s turnaround time and quality. Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Who’s Who Compendium The Presidency - Palácio do Planalto Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Dilma Vana Rousseff loo-EES ee-NAH-see- JEEL-mah ROO-sehf oh LOO-lah day SEEL-vah 36th President of Brazil 35th President of Brazil Michel Temer José Dirceu Mee-shell Te-mer joo-SAY DEER-say-oo 37th President of Brazil Chief of Staff of the Presidency Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Federal Public Prosecutor's Office - Ministério Público Federal Sérgio Fernando Moro Rodrigo Janot Monteiro de Barros ser-GEE-oo fer-nan-DOO mo- rod-REE-goo ja-NO mon-tey- ROO ROO de ba-ROOZ Former Federal Judge of the 40th Prosecutor General of the Regional Federal Court of the 4th Republic Region Erika Mialik Marena Deltan Martinazzo Dallagnol e-REE-ca MEE-a-lic ma-RE-na del-TAN mar-TEE-na-zoo da-la- Former Federal Police of Brazil NYOL Inspector Federal Prosecutor Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. Paulo Roberto Costa Pedro José Barusco Filho Paw-LOO ro-ber-TOO Pe-DROO joo-SAY bar-OO- KOHS-tah scoo FEE-lli-OO Former Executive Former Executive Renato de Sousa Duque Nestor Cervero Re-NAH-too de so-ZA DOO- Nes-TOR SER-ve-ro ce Former Executive Former Executive Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Odebrecht S.A. Emilo Alves Odebrecht Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht Em-EE-lee-oo AL-ves ode-bre- mar-sel-OO ba-EE-ya ode-bre- CH CH Former Chairman of the Board Former Chief Exectuive Officer of Directors Rogerio Araujo Cesar Rocha Ro-jer-EE-oo ara-OO-soo SE-sar ro-SHA Former Executive Former Executive Operation Car Wash: A challenge for translators Institutional Map The Presidency - Palácio do Planalto Federal Public Prosecutor's Office - Ministério Público Federal (MPF) - The Palácio do Planalto is the official workplace of the President of Brazil; - the MPF is the Brazilian body of - It is located in the national capital of independent public prosecutors at Brasília; both the federal and state level; - It was inaugurated on April 21, 1960, - It operates independently from the and It has been the workplace of three branches of government; every Brazilian president since - There are three levels of public Juscelino Kubitschek; prosecutors, according to the - the President of the Republic, is both jurisdiction of the courts before the head of state and the head of which they perform their duties: government of Brazil. The president - There are the federal prosecutors leads the executive branch of the who bring cases before judges in federal government and is the lower courts; the appellate federal commander-in-chief of the Brazilian prosecutors, and the superior federal Armed Forces; prosecutors. - Jair Bolsonaro is the 38th and - The Prosecutor General heads the current President. He was sworn in federal body and brings cases before on 1 January 2019 following the 2018 the Supreme Federal Court, which presidential election; handles final judicial reviews and - With regards to Operation Car Wash, criminal offenses committed by the 3 Presidents who held office prior federal legislators, members of the to Bolsonaro, were implicated in the cabinet, and the President of Brazil. scandal.; - The main job of prosecutors