+1 you don't take a vacation while your company is in jeopardy. Either you care about what happens to your company or you don't. Screw vacation. Act like an owner.
You seem to be taking Eduardo's statements at face value, that he really had no involvement and Simon made all the bad decisions. If you are CEO, doesn't the buck stop with you? It seems to make more sense that Eduardo was involved in numerous bad decisions but doesn't want to take any responsibilities.
YES, definitely true point. Simon should have stayed, as the senior most leader of company, and helped manage. Eduardo is just willing and able to blame anyone but himself. The buck does stop with him, yet he didn't make a buck for the company, so it never stopped. Now he's selling ideas to the creditors committee in bulk- do they not learn? where is the responsibility in that? Looks like the tables have turned.