Posted on September 16, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Anatel techs watch GatoNet at the scene of a federal bust of one of these black-market paramilitary infotainment distribution businesses. Did death threats to anyone wishing to switch cable providers guarantee 100% market share? What do you think? And here you thought Time Warner Cable was bad.
Favelas cariocas terão TV a cabo e internet banda [...]
Filed under: Brazil, Organized Crime | Tagged: broadband, cable TV, carlos slim, gatonet, globo, Net Serviços, rio de janeiro, telmex | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 16, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Diretor-executivo da PF é preso por suspeita de favorecimento do irmão: The executive director of the Brazilian federal police — the No. 2 Tupi G-man — is arrested on suspicion of, well, nepotism, basically.
The G1/Globo news portal reports … even as its sister publication, the prestigious O Globo daily of Rio de Janeiro, gabblingly misreports.
O [...]
Filed under: Brazil, Journalism, Organized Crime, Politics | Tagged: amapá, ebx, eike batista, mmx | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 16, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Indigenists, Separatists Are Destroying Bolivia
El Pais
Tarija province
11 September
I have been trying to survey some of the coverage of the current political crisis in the Bolivian press and electronic media.
This editorial from the Tarija daily El Pais was interesting, I thought.
The newspaper’s editorialist makes a play for what it describes as a [...]
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