Character Assassination Veja-Style in the Diamond Fields of Rondônia?

“No to the invasion of Cinta Larga tribal land!” Bad trouble in diamond-rich regions of the far north.
“Newspapers are like revolvers: You keep them around so you can pull them out when it’s time to come out blasting.” — Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombian media owner; see “A Newspaper is Like a Gun”: Armed [...]

Is It Pulp Yet? Contemporary Brazilian Popular Fiction

Cheap literary thrills at a price that’s not too polpudo.
I am constantly on the lookout for something decent and not too expensive to read in New World Lusophone.
Brazil lacks the sort of developed publishing and book distribution industry that produces, for example, the likes of Penguin editions or those cheap newsstand thrillers you buy to [...]