El Teniente

Alfredo Enrione, director of the Center for Corporate Governance and Society at ESE Business School, responds to César Barros's analysis of corporate accidents. He disagrees that the El Teniente case was less predictable than La Polar, arguing that risk signals were evident in seismic data and Sernageomin reports.

March 21, 2026 Reported by AI

Professor Alfredo Enrione publishes a study on the death of six workers at Codelco's El Teniente mine last year, blaming severe corporate governance defects. In a column, he compares it to the La Polar scandal 15 years ago, where bonuses ignored key risks.