Sambodian Scenes: “Ad Hoc Secondary Market in Driver’s License Points”

Senha de delegado era usada em fraude no Detran-SP: The password of a senior traffic cop was used in a fraudulent scheme at the São Paulo DMV-equivalent in which points lost from drivers licenses due to infractions were transferred to innocent drivers.
In exchange for money, naturally.
A bar conversation interlocutor the other night was making just [...]

Diebold in the Tropics: Stray Voting Machine Falls Off a Truck

The Última Instância (Brazil) legal news service reports:

TRE-SP diz que urna encontrada por pedestre ainda não pertencia ao tribunal

The state elections authority of São Paulo says in a press release that a voting machine found in the street by a passerby was not one of theirs and no one knows how it ended up falling [...]

Battle of the Pencil-Sharpened Tongues: Amorim Jabs Mainardi in Legal Fencing Match

Comunique-se, a trade publication for the Brazilian media sector, reports: Paulo Henrique Amorim prevails in libel suit against Diogo Mainardi of Veja magazine (Editora Abril). Abril has not exhausted its appeals, however.
Em decisão julgada pela 5ª Câmara de Direito Privado do Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo nesta quarta-feira (06/08), Diogo Mainardi e a Editora [...]

Rio de Janeiro: Gabeira Maps Militialand

Fernando Gabeira of the Green Party, the PSDB-PV-PPS coalition candidate for mayor of Rio de Janeiro, presents a Google Maps diagram of off-the-grid communities dominated by the drug traffic and militias in the city, as G1/Globo reports.
Judging from the volume and quality of coverage, as best as I can guesstimate (somebody must be doing real [...]