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Related Parties - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2018
Brazilian development bank [member]
Disclosure of transactions between related parties [line items]
Percentage of shares owned by stakeholders	5.37%

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Percentage ownership of stakeholder.

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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