“Veja Runs What Rohter Wrote”

Rohter the Boater: “Did Larry do good journalism?” Survey says: Um, no, not hardly nohow! Source: ABI

Lula was no Boris Yeltsin, as I am sure the Russians will agree.
In Parker’s view, Rohter’s writings suggested that Haitians were a backward people with primitive beliefs. Furthermore, Parker found that Rohter’s pieces were in concert with U.S. policy [...]

Os Maias: “Bostonian Brazukes See Obama as the American Lula”

Sem fila, brasileiro vota em Obama vendo características comuns com Lula: The Folha de S. Paulo interviews a Brazilian living in Framingham, Massachussets who seeks Barack Obama as the gringo Lula.
The interview chimes in nicely with an op-ed by Harvard Law professor and Brazilian “Minister of the Future” Roberto Mangabeira Unger yesterday in the Folha [...]

How I Am Yearning to be Learning of Tropical Earnings

I have been spending my mornings lately doing stringer work for a financial news service  — Caveat: Naturally, the views expressed in this blog, if any, do not necessarily reflect those of my employers or clients, if any — and following the Sambodian business scene.
Every morning, I fire up my Open Source Bloomberg Box© and [...]

Dubya in The Tropics: Elio Gaspari on Mesopotamian Mandraquices

As mentiras de Bush têm até carta falsa: Elio Gaspari, a journalist and historian of the military dictatorship — and one of the most reality-based conservative brains in Brazil — uses news of the election of Barack Saddam Hussein Osama Obama to remind Brazilian readers that Bush lied and people died.
Faltam 76 dias para George [...]