Andrade Gutierrez

Brazil's business in Libya

At the glistening corporate high-rise headquarters of a few giant Brazilian companies, it’s a good bet some executives are sweating right now as they watch with keen interest events unfold in Libya.

Brazil’s biggest and most influential engineering and construction companies are also some of the most important players in construction projects in the northern African country that is now embroiled in a bloody citizen uprising against the 40-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi.

Now many of these Brazilian companies are scrambling to figure out if they should get their workers out of the country, and wondering if potentially billions of dollars in business deals are at risk.