TV Globo in Nextel Hell: Feds Contradict The Folha

LULA’S GESTAPO: “Without a judge’s order, federal [police intrude on ]privacy of TV Globo journalists in a bid to violate journalist-source confidentiality.]” Apparent source: A leaker from inside the leak investigation. How ironic is that?

PF nega em comunicado quebra de sigilo telefônico de jornalistas sem autorização: The federal police — “Lula’s KGB,” as their detractors [...]

“#&@+#%! Telefônica!”

A follow-up to

“Telefônica Eats Its Own Head”: The Rumor Mill

Edu Guimarães writes a blog called Cidadania.com and is one of the leaders of a self-styled group of Sem-Mídia Net activists here in Brazil — a play on the sem-terra or sintierra movements that militate for agrarian reform.
Can jaw-droppingly shitty service on the part of rent-seeking [...]

In Praise of Itaúnibanco

Aziz Ahmed, columnist for the Jornal do Commercio — of Rio de Janeiro, that is; there are several — praises the handling of the recently announced merger of Itaú and Unibanco, two of Brazil’s largest financial institutions.
And rightly so, it seems.
The deal announcement really did come as a proverbial thunderclap out of the blue.
A complete [...]

Dantas’ Inferno: Investigating the Investigation; TV Globo in Nextel Hell

In all four locations, teams of TV Globo journalists were present even before the federal police arrived to serve the warrants.
Há mais investigações sobre policiais da Satiagraha do que sobre o próprio Dantas: There are more investigations into police who conducted investigations in the Satiagraha case than into Daniel Valente Dantas, its principal suspect, reports [...]

Sicário Slaying Has The Sousaphone Mulling Sambodian Hideaway

Mrs. Sousaphone has been negotiating a potential lease deal on a beach house in Barra do Sahy, tucked away in a modest sertão of mata atlantica along the north coast of Sambodia.
I have been grumbling about the terms and conditions, and complaining that I can never get any writing done during our beach weekends, as [...]