Hobbesian Rio de Janeiro: Will Former Top Cop Get the Chopp? Will Batman Remain In the Can?

Chefe da policia
Pelo telefone
Manda me avisar
Que na Carioca
Há uma roleta
Para se jogar
–Donga
Conselho de Ética da Alerj pede cassação de deputado estadual Álvaro Lins: The ethics commission of the Rio state legislative assembly recommends the expulsion of former state police chief Álvaro Lins, accused of putting the fix in for the gambling rackets, being mixed up [...]

“Cronies of the alliance are mired in sh**!” A Press Freedom Debate From the Brazilian Deep South

With municipal election campaigns getting underway, it is political silly season in Brazil.
Comunique-se reports on a frequent manifestation: conflicts between regulations on campaign communications and the freedom, or lack thereof, of a press that is often, implicitly or explicitly, subject to internal or external political control.
A Associação Nacional de Jornais (ANJ), por meio de nota, [...]

Editora Abril: Building the Chinese Wall?

The Brazilian journalist does not feel free to write. More than just having to follow the editorial line of the publications they work for, the complaints principally have to do with coercion by political or business groups. –“A Profile of the Brazilian Journalist”
Comunique-se. O portal da comunicação reports on management changes at the Editora Abril, [...]

“Dantas x Lemman: Brazilian Capitalism Then and Now”

Daniel Valente Dantas. Graphic: Veja magazine, May 2006, when it reported: “Daniel Dantas has a list that may show illegal offshore bank accounts controlled by the president and party bigwigs.” Veja had plenty of evidence that “almost certainly does not” was the word to use instead of “may.” Ecce Veja.

Dantas is the past and Lemman [...]