[mlinhares]

In specific countries, like Brazil, “fixer” is a real job (it’s called “despachante” there) and it’s supposedly someone that knows the bureaucracy and how to navigate it.

Most of the time when you need to deal with a government agency you’d go through one of them. They don’t advertise that they’ll bribe people to get it done but that’s how it works.

[matheusmoreira]

Their services are well worth it, bribes or not. The less you interact with brazilian bureaucracy, the happier you are.