The problems of public security that the press ignores are discussed openly by members of the state judicial and military police on blogs and show that part of this strike is a reaction by police against what is called the “rotten bunch” of state law enforcement. If you read the alternative media, for example, [...]
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Did someone bug the Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court?
It has been widely reported that the Brazlian National Intelligence Agency did, but because the evidence is slim to nonexistent, the message is ambiguous — and the messenger even more so.
Brazilian economic and business commentator Luis Nassif has been carrying on a fascinating online colloquy [...]
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The yin, the yang, the right, and the wrong
Siderúrgicas da Ásia terão 40% da Namisa em acordo de US$3 bi: A wire service report from Reuters, run in the Estado de S. Paulo, says 40% of Namisa, a subsidiary of CSN, is going to a group of Asian steelmakers for 4 trillion South Korean won, [...]
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