Risky Business
Meet some of the IFC’s most controversial beneficiaries.
by C.P. and M.K.
Jan 01, 2016
2 minutes
MIGUEL FACUSSÉ BARJUM
Corporación Dinant
IFC investment: $30 million
The late Honduran oligarch, who died in June, founded a manufacturing giant that owns 20,000 acres of palm plantations in Honduras’ Bajo Aguán. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “colorful” and “often ruthless,” Facussé presided over a company that has been dogged by allegations of using a private security force to forcibly evict families
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