Traffic Is Murder: Scene From a Sambodian Saturday Night

I read it in the Diário do Grande ABC, the daily newspaper of the “seven cities” of the greater São Paulo metro area (population 2.5 million), the metropolitan industrial belt and birthplace of the independent labor movement that gave rise to President Lula.
Um banal acidente de trânsito na esquina da Avenida Goiás com a Rua [...]

Rio: “Internal Affairs Commissioner Shot in Armed Robbery Attempt”

Delegado baleado: A Rio de Janeiro police internal affairs commissioner gets shot in rush hour traffic.
He participated in expelling the two reputed leaders of the Justice League “militia,” Jerominho, a city councilman for the PMDB, and his brother Natalino, an impeached ex-state legislator for the DEM-PFL, from the state judicial police force.
Post hoc ergo propter [...]