When governments are late paying what they owe for large projects, major companies now put pressure on them by not paying workers’ wages. When workers complain and their voices reach officials in those countries, the companies might respond that they are waiting for the government’s ‘baptism’, meaning that they are waiting to receive a portion of what is owed to them, and that is what is delaying things by up to seven or eight months… The victims are the workers who have nothing to do with all that.