EXXEL, NAVARRO, GALIMBERTI Y LA CIA

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SERVICIOS PRIVADOS DE INTELIGENCIA

Navarro invierte con socios de la CIA

Uno es empresario uruguayo; el otro fue jefe de la estación de la CIA en Argentina. Juntos montaron en Estados Unidos una agencia de seguridad e investigaciones, Dilligence, que ahora intentan instalar en la Argentina para competir en el mercado de las agencias de Inteligencia privada.La sociedad entre Juan Navarro, presidente del fondo de Inversión Exxel Group, y el ex CIA Ross Newland nació como un sueño hace casi diez años, cuando los presentó un amigo que tenían en común: el ex montonero Rodolfo Galimberti, fallecido en febrero del 2002.Desde aquellos años, para nadie cercano a la Embajada de Estados Unidos era ajena la amistad que cultivaron Navarro y Newland. Lo que nadie sospechaba era que juntos iban a relanzar la firma Dilligence, una empresa que Navarro compró en 16 millones de dólares. Dilligence opera en Estados Unidos como agencia de investigaciones y distribuidora de chalecos antibalas y blindados para autos. Pero 20 días atrás, Newland llegó a la Argentina para buscar clientes, con la intención de instalarse en Buenos Aires. "A Ross le gusta Buenos Aires. Es hincha de Boca, ama el asado. Se argentinizó", explicó un viejo conocido suyo. En el Exxel, consultados por Clarín, prefirieron no hacer comentarios.Newland fue el jefe de la base de la CIA en Argentina durante buena parte del gobierno menemista y parte del de la Alianza. Su salida fue de la peor forma: como derivación de una interna dentro de la SIDE, su foto salió publicada en la tapa del diario Página/12. La pérdida de invisibilidad, esencial para un espía, lo obligó a volver a Estados Unidos para terminar su carrera detrás de un escritorio. En su retorno a la acción, Newland no está solo. Sumó a David Manners, su mejor amigo y también un viejo conocido de Navarro y Galimberti. Manners, que fue jefe de operaciones de la CIA en Oriente Medio, en el año 2000 era presidente de Universal Control, la agencia de investigaciones que en ese momento administraba en la Argentina Galimberti. Universal Control ya no se dedica a la inteligencia, pero Manners está de vuelta. Con su amigo Ross, la billetera de Navarro y el padrinazgo, etéreo, de aquel montonero que se hizo menemista.

BUNGE TODOS LOS CAMINOS NOS CONDUCEN A ROMA

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he following is an excerpt from a DEF 14A SEC Filing, filed by BUNGE LTD on 4/14/2006. Next Section Previous Section -- Use Sections To Navigate Through The Document -- FORM DEF 14A BENEFICIAL OWNERS PROPOSAL 1 NAME AND TITLE NAME AND TITLE NAME AND TITLE EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION COMPENSATION TABLE OPTIONS OPTIONS AGGREGATE Compensation of Directors COMPENSATION COMMITTEE REPORT SHARE OWNERSHIP OF DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERS BENEFICIAL OWNERS AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT PROPOSAL 2 PROPOSAL 3 CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS FOR THE 2007 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OTHER MATTERS THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED

PROPOSAL 1 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Election of Class II Directors Upon the recommendation of the corporate governance and nominations committee, each of Messrs. Coppinger and Weisser has been nominated by the Board for reelection to serve as a Class II director. Mr. Braun Saint is not standing for reelection. The Class II directors will be elected at this Annual General Meeting and will serve a term that expires at our 2009 annual general meeting. The following table lists the current members of the Board in the order in which their terms expire, beginning with the two nominees for Class II directors who currently serve on our Board: Director   Positions with Bunge   Class Francis Coppinger   Director   Class II Alberto Weisser   Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer   Class II Carlos Braun Saint   Director   Class II Jorge Born, Jr.   Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors   Class I Octavio Caraballo   Director   Class I Bernard de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais   Director   Class I William Engels   Director   Class I Ernest G. Bachrach   Director   Class III Enrique H. Boilini   Director   Class III Michael H. Bulkin   Director   Class III Paul H. Hatfield   Director   Class III   The following paragraphs set forth information about the business experience and education of the nominees and our directors. The nominees for election at the Annual General Meeting are listed first. Class II Nominees       Francis Coppinger, 55   Mr. Coppinger has been a member of our Board since 2001. Until March 2006, he was Chief Executive Officer of Publicité Internationale Intermedia Plc (PII), a joint-venture he established with the Michelin Group in December 1992 which coordinates the media activities of the Michelin Group in Europe. Mr. Coppinger sold his interest in PII to the Michelin Group in January 2006. Prior to his career with PII, Mr. Coppinger held a number of senior executive positions, including General Manager and Chairman, with Intermedia S.A., a media buying agency based in Paris. He is a member of the board of directors of Intermedia. Mr. Coppinger holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Paris and attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.   11     Alberto Weisser, 50   Mr. Weisser is the Chairman of our Board and our Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Weisser has been with Bunge since July 1993. He has been a member of our Board since 1995, was appointed our Chief Executive Officer in January 1999 and became Chairman of the Board in July 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Weisser held the position of Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Bunge, Mr. Weisser worked for the BASF Group in various finance-related positions for 15 years. Mr. Weisser is also a member of the board of directors of Ferro Corporation and International Paper Company and a member of the North American Agribusiness Advisory Board of Rabobank. Mr. Weisser has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of São Paulo, Brazil and has participated in several post-graduate programs at Harvard Business School. He has also attended INSEAD’s Management Development Program in France. Class II Director with Term Expiring in 2006   Carlos Braun Saint, 33   Mr. Braun Saint has been a member of our Board since 2001. Mr. Braun Saint is a private investor with interests in agribusiness, real estate and other companies in Argentina and Uruguay. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Braun Saint was a Vice President and director of Agroexpress S.A., an agribusiness company in Argentina. In addition, from 1999 until mid-2004, Mr. Braun Saint was employed by Bellamar Estancias S.A., another Argentine agribusiness company. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Braun Saint worked for the Private Banking division of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria. Mr. Braun Saint serves on the board of directors of Bellamar Estancias S.A. and Grupo Fen S.A., an Argentine hotel administration company. Mr. Braun Saint is also a director of Mutual Investment Limited, our former parent company prior to our initial public offering. Mr. Braun Saint attended Belgrano University in Argentina. Class I Directors with Terms Expiring in 2007   Jorge Born, Jr., 43   Mr. Born has been a member of our Board and our Deputy Chairman since 2001. Mr. Born is President and Chief Executive Officer of Bomagra S.A., a privately held company involved in the real estate, technology and communications equipment, hotel construction and management, farming and waste management industries in Argentina. Prior to joining Bomagra in 1997, Mr. Born spent all of his professional life working for Bunge in various capacities in the commodities trading, oilseed processing and food products areas in Argentina, Brazil, the United States and Europe. He also served as head of Bunge’s European operations from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Born serves on the Advisory Board of Hochschild Mining S.A., a South American mining conglomerate. He is also a director and Deputy Chairman of the board of directors of Mutual Investment Limited. Mr. Born has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of Wharton’s Latin American Executive Board and the Board of Governors of Wharton’s Lauder Institute.   12     Octavio Caraballo, 62   Mr. Caraballo has been a member of our Board since 2001. Mr. Caraballo is President of Estancia y Cabaña Las Lilas S.A., an Argentine company. Mr. Caraballo joined Bunge in 1967, and served in various divisions over the course of his career, including as head of the Bunge group’s former paints, chemicals and mining division, until his retirement in 1997. Prior to joining Bunge, he worked for several financial institutions in Europe. He is also a director of Mutual Investment Limited and has served as Chairman of the board of directors and President of Mutual Investment Limited. Mr. Caraballo received a Business Administration degree from Babson College and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Babson College.   Bernard de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais, 61   Mr. de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais has been a member of our Board since 2001. Mr. de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais joined Bunge in 1970 and held various senior executive positions in Argentina, Brazil and Europe in the agribusiness and food products divisions until his retirement in 1994. He is also the Chairman of the board of directors of Mutual Investment Limited. Mr. de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais has a degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal Polytechnic School of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.   William Engels, 46   Mr. Engels has been a member of our Board since 2001. From September 2002 to January 2003, he was head of mergers and acquisitions at Quinsa, a Luxembourg-based holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Engels has also served as Group Controller and as Manager of Corporate Finance at Quinsa, beginning in 1992. In 2003, Mr. Engels joined the board of directors of Quinsa as the representative of Beverage Associates (BAC) Corp. Prior to joining Quinsa, Mr. Engels served as Vice President at Citibank, N.A. in London, responsible for European sales of Latin American investment products. Mr. Engels also serves as a member of the board of BISA, a fund with diversified investments in different industries. Mr. Engels holds a B.S. from Babson College, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.   13   Class III Directors With Terms Expiring in 2008   Ernest G. Bachrach, 53   Mr. Bachrach has been a member of our Board since 2001. He has been the Chief Executive Officer for Latin America and, since 1999, has been a member of the Executive Committee of Advent International Corporation, a private equity firm. He has been with Advent since 1990. Prior to joining Advent, Mr. Bachrach worked as Senior Partner, European Investments, for Morningside Group, a private investment group. Mr. Bachrach also serves as a member of the boards of CardSystem Upsi S.A., Aeroplazas S.A. de C.V., Sintres Holding AG, Arabela Holding S.A. de C.V., Farmacologia Argentina de Avanzada and Dufry AG. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.   Enrique H. Boilini, 44   Mr. Boilini has been a member of our Board since 2001. He has been a Managing Member at Yellow Jersey Capital, LLC, an investment management company, since September 2002. Prior to establishing Yellow Jersey Capital, Mr. Boilini was a Managing Member of Farallon Capital Management, LLC and Farallon Partners, LLC, two investment management companies, since October 1996. Mr. Boilini joined Farallon in March 1995 as a Managing Director. Prior to that time, Mr. Boilini also worked at Metallgessellschaft Corporation, as the head trader of emerging market debt and equity securities, and also served as a Vice President at The First Boston Corporation, where he was responsible for that company’s activities in Argentina. Mr. Boilini is a member of the board of Alpargatas SAIC and he is a Managing Director and member of the board of Sovereign Debt Solutions Limited, an entity that acts as negotiating team for the Argentine Bond Restructuring Agency PLC (ABRA), a special purpose vehicle established for the sole function of aggregating bonds issued by Argentina and held by retail and small institutional investors outside the United States and representing those investors in the restructuring of Argentina’s sovereign debt. Mr. Boilini received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 1988 and a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Engineering.   Michael H. Bulkin, 67   Mr. Bulkin has been a member of our Board since 2001. Mr. Bulkin is a private investor. He retired as a Director of McKinsey & Company in 1993 after 30 years of service in which he served as a board member and in a variety of senior positions, most recently as head of McKinsey’s New York and Northeast offices. Mr. Bulkin also serves as a member of the boards of Ferro Corporation and Specified Technologies Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree from Pratt Institute, and a Master of Industrial Administration from Yale University.   14     Paul H. Hatfield, 70   Mr. Hatfield has been a member of our Board since 2002. He is also the Principal of Hatfield Capital Group, a private equity investment firm that he founded in 1997. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Hatfield was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Petrolite Corporation, a chemical company. Before joining Petrolite, Mr. Hatfield spent over 35 years at the Ralston Purina Company in a variety of management positions. Mr. Hatfield also serves as a member of the board of directors of Solutia, Inc., Maritz, Inc. and PENFORD Corporation. Mr. Hatfield has a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics and a Master of Science in Economics and Marketing, both received from Kansas State University.   RECOMMENDATION OF THE BOARD Our Board recommends that you vote FOR the election of each of Messrs. Coppinger and Weisser to our Board as Class II Directors for a term ending at our 2009 annual general meeting. 15

HECTOR COLELLA, OCA Y EXXEL

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EL COLOR DEL DINERO







El regreso de Ocasa y de Héctor Colella



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Aunque dicen que nunca se fueron, Héctor Colella y su controlada Ocasa, regresaron al mundo de los negocios.



Este cordobés de 51 años, seis hijos y, desde el 2002, cuando Eduardo Duhalde presidió el país, con residencia fija en Montevideo, saltó a la fama el día en que se suicidó Alfredo Yabrán. Aquel mayo de 1998, el empresario lo había designado el heredero. Y en una carta lo nombró por sus iniciales: HC.



Colella no sólo quedó a cargo de la administración del imperio Yabrán, que abarca, entre otras tantas cosas, 84.000 hectáreas, que lo convierten en uno de los principales productores ganaderos.



Una de sus actividades menos conocidas son las iniciadas por el mismo Yabrán en Nueva York. En 1982 fundó allá la firma de logística Ocasa, a la que agregó inversiones inmobiliarias en Miami y Los Angeles. En la Argentina, Ocasa fue vendida al Exxel Group en 1997 junto con OCA y luego cayó en convocatoria.



La Ocasa de los Estados Unidos se mantuvo viva, a pesar de las sospechas que siempre rondaron al grupo Yabrán. Y gracias a la explotación de un nicho como el delicado transporte de sustancias biológicas, está multiplicando millones. Colella descubrió el filón y tiene de clientes a los mayores laboratorios del Norte: les garantiza velocidad entre lugares remotos.



Pero se prepara para un nuevo salto: obtuvo el permiso de la Reserva Federal para convertirse en el carrier de los dólares que se exportan desde Miami a América latina.



Con una inversión de 20 millones de dólares construye a toda prisa un tesoro propio en el Aeropuerto de Miami, para el flamante emprendimiento. Ocasa EE.UU. cerrará el ejercicio 2005 con 94 millones de dólares de facturación y una plantilla de 500 empleados.



En Argentina compró la deuda de Ocasa y está levantando la estantería. Por de pronto, hizo pie en la logística para bancos y tarjetas de crédito. Vaya vueltas del destino, Colella no pierde pisada a Oca, que fue la nave insignia de Yabrán y hoy pertenece a un fondo estadounidense.

BUNGE & BORN EL REGRESO

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EL COLOR DEL DINERO

Bunge, del plan BB a la era Kirchner



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Aunque ellos dicen que nunca se fueron, lo cierto es que durante el menemismo, al que apoyaron desde sus inicios con dos figuras claves del holding, Bunge vendió casi todas sus empresas. En 1998, el mejor año de la convertibilidad, la multi argentina se desprendió de su nave insignia Molinos que quedó en manos del grupo Pérez Companc. Ese año embarcó apenas 800.000 toneladas de granos. Pero desde la devaluación las cosas parecen haber cambiado: hoy exportan 12 millones de toneladas y pelean el podio con Cargill.



Es llamativo. En el desastroso 2002 en White Plains, estado de Nueva York, el board decidió la inversión más importante de Bunge para el país: US$ 300 millones que comenzaron a cobrar forma la semana pasada en Ramallo, con un puerto y plantas de aceites y fertilizantes que dispone de la tecnología más moderna del mundo. La idea germinó cuando el país estaba en default y su riesgo superaba los 5.000 puntos. Pero las ventajas de un puerto sobre el Paraná, con un calado natural envidiable, desdibujaron rápidamente los temores.



Raúl Padilla, el jefe de Bunge, dice que Argentina siempre es difícil de explicar, aunque es más fácil si hay que enfrentar a un directorio lleno de argentinos. Entre ellos, Jorge Born junior, Octavio Caraballo, Carlos Braun, Bernard de La Tour y William Engels, pariente lejano del famoso filósofo amigo de Marx.



La tecnología del polo agroindustrial de Ramallo, basada en un software realizado por una pyme rosarina, es parte de los conocimientos que este gigante ya está exportando al resto de sus plantas desparramadas por el planeta.



Pese a que los márgenes en este sector son estrechos (4%), la filial argentina tiene para crecer: con US$ 2.500 millones sólo representa hoy el 10% de los negocios globales de Bunge.



Por eso no descartan nada. Sobre todo, cuando se prevé que los dulces precios actuales llegaron para quedarse al menos durante los próximos cinco años.