The Mexican Radio Effect: Campaign Propaganda on Tupi YouTube

I wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbecued iguana
I’d take requests on the telephone
I’m on a wavelength far from home
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
I dial it in from south of the border
I hear the talking of the DJ
Can’t understand just what does he say?
I’m on a Mexican radio. I’m [...]

Life in Sambodia: McMafia in the Vila Mada

People sometimes ask me why I spend so much time clipping news on such topics as Rio de Janeiro parapolitics, police corruption and death squad activity, and the Great Sino-Paraguayan Silk Road here in Brazil.
Is this the product of some morbid fascination of mine?
No, the fact is that this sort of thing hits close to [...]