Mainardi: Fresh Pounds of Flesh From The Vanity Press

The telecomitalia.pdf file on DivShare, which Mainardi says he posted: Still live. Uploaded February 14, 2008. Click to zoom.

Diogo Mainardi issuing the following podcast on July 15, on the Web site of Veja magazine (Editoral Abril, Brazil), about the leaked federal police report in the Daniel Dantas case.
He then issued a column in this week’s [...]

“Veja Can Easily Afford to Libel You”

A reader of the blog of Luis Nassif (erroneously, as it turns out) notes today:
No último balanço da Abril, advogados independentes estimaram em mais de R$ 50 milhões a necessidade de provisão para enfrentar processos de crimes praticados contra a honra de terceiros.
On Abril’s last balance sheet, independent attorneys [sic] estimated at more than R$50 [...]

“Anglo Delays MMX Payment Over Police Investigation”

Anglo aguarda fim da operação da PF para pagar a MMX: Anglo American agreed back on March 31 to acquire a controlling share of the assets of the mining conglomerate MMX here in Brazil.
But then the federal police executed search warrants at the offices of MMX’s parent company, and at the home of group CEO [...]

Lost in Translation: The New York Times and New World Lusophony

The ombudsman of the iG portal (Brazil) notes the hazards of getting your foreign news in syndicated translation.
Prosseguem os desagradáveis problemas de tradução nos textos do “The New York Times” publicados pelo iG. Uma tradução publicada hoje com destaque na página de Mundo inverte a informação presente no original.
Our disagreeable problems with translating articles from [...]

Bovespa Ins and Outs: Volume and Volatility

Bovespa tem saída de R$ 11 bi em capital externo no ano: Exame magazine reproduces part of a story by Fabiana Holtz of the Agência Estado — is it really going to be bought up by the Organizações Capivara Globo? — on influxes and outflows of foreign capital in the Stock Exchange of the [...]