“Abril Will Separate Church and State”

Brazilians rate the performance of their press low, in terms of “honest and accuracy,” according to the BBC-Synovate survey in question. They rate the relative priority of press freedom and social stability about the same, with a slight edge to the latter. Brazil is among those countries where respondents tended to find their news media [...]

Tempest in a Tupi Teapot Dome? Priming the High-Pressure Content Pipeline

“Petroleum agency director says he was authorized to reveal the mega-reserves; Lima rebuts criticisms of his making the discovery public and denies he is subject to the authority CVM. Tutty Vasquez: Discovery may be bigger than Lula’s ego.” Funny: I personally heard Lima say that none of the information he said was not already on [...]

“Rio Governor Will Veto Militia Legalization Proposal”

Extra (Globo, Rio de Janeiro), April 12: “State lawmakers approve legalization of militias.” The headline is a little tendentious, but there does seem to be that risk.
The most significant aspect of this attempt (by the DEM deputy) is that it indicates the degree to which these illegal armed groups have extensive political connections.
Cabral diz que [...]

The Vila Maddá Morning Milkshake (With Net Delay)

The boi zebu (bos indicus): One end is moo, the other (in about 50% of cases) milk.
This morning business report delayed by our falling off the network for several hours for some reason.
Provider: NET Serviços cable broadband, whose motto seems to be “why deliver five 9s when one 9 is plenty? They will never know [...]

The Globalization of Disclosure: What We Have Here Is Failure to Commun’cate

I have been reading a lot of annual reports lately, in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
I occasionally also work as a translator of these things, which is why, in addition to an interest in business news for its own sake, I try to keep on the state of the art in business translation as well.
The state [...]