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3 1.14 to 1.19.2019 the visit of president Barra anticipating the quality of her conversation with the Brazilian government people”. Portal Terra, apparently, had the primacy of releasing Zarlenga’s message, elected Personality of the Year of the last AutoData Award. In it, the president states that “2019 will be a decisive year for our history”, after the “significant aggregate loss in the period from 2016 to 2018, which CANNOT BE REPEATED [in capital letters in the original]. He tells that “the Executive Comittee of Mercosur developed a viability plan which was presented to our global leadership in Detroit. That plan requires the support of the Brazilian government, dealers, employees, unions and suppliers. The GM investments and our future depend on the success of that plan”. In Detroit, told another source to AutoData, Zarlenga would have heard, from Barra, that only one thing makes sense – the profit. And that he would return to Brazil with the mission to prepare the land for her visit to the president of Brazil. In contact with a director of GM Brasil, now retired and living in the United States, AutoData learned of another possibility that ranges the entire production operation in Argentina and Brazil - the statement makes no reference to Andean GM and Central GM -: the Chinese SAIC Motor Corporation Limited would assume the productive activities. Since 2011, SAIC has been the successor of Shanghai Internal Combustion Engine Components Company, founded in 1955 and succeeded in 1995 by the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., which according to Wikipedia held more than 144 thousand employees in 2013. It is one of the four largest companies in China and maintain three operations associated with General Motors itself, Volkswagen and Iveco - and owns the English company MG. In 2018, the company was the sales leader in China with a little more than 7 million units sold. In its latest balance sheet, SAIC reported revenues of US$ 67.93 billion in the first half of 2018. Inside GM - The report also searched people in the field to comment on president Carlos Zarlenga’s message. The e-mail fell like a bomb in several areas and, in fact, caused insecurity and some indignation with regard to the workers because even those who are still on collective vacations (the production will resume on January 28) did not understand how a company that is preparing for a new product cycle may consider the possibility of leaving South America.