Sambodian Election Season: Marta Goes Mildly Negative

Marta (Suplicy of the PT) is running against Gilberto Kassab for a second (nonconsecutive) term as mayor of Earth’s fourth-largest urban conglomeration after having lost to José Serra in 2004.
When she was elected in 2000, Larry Rohter of the New York Times wrote,
The 10 million residents of Brazil’s biggest, richest city were convinced that the [...]

“Cops Stop Extortions In Very Large Proportions”

Peixoto, who operates an export business in Rondônia and the port of Vitória (in Espirito Santo), illegally obtained confidential financial information about the victim …
Última Instância is a trade publication for lawyers on the UOL portal — the Folha de S. Paulo Internet property that chased AOL out of the country.
Item:
MPF em São Paulo [...]

“Nazis Build The World’s Safest Airship!”: Failed Prognostication at Veja Magazine

Entrelinhas is the daily Web log of Luiz Antonio Magalhães, political editor of the DCI business daily and assistant editor of the Ford Foundation-funded Obsérvatorio da Imprensa, a media watch project dedicated, pretty much, to the proposition that the Brazilian news media thoroughly sucks.
Which in many respects is true, though there are many, many honorable [...]

Rio: Very Hostile Takeover in Alt.Transport Market

A number of men armed with pistols and assault rifles occupied van stops with five Blazers and a Santana. According to witnesses, they were working at the behest of state legislator Natalino Guimarães (DEM) and (his brother) city councilman Jerominho (PMBD)
Rio: milícia teria tomado linha de motoristas de vans: Here is a back item from [...]