Eliane Tranchesi: What a Long, Strange Trip (to Prison) It’s Been

O Brasil sempre foi a casa da mãe Joana de elites sub-reptícias que fazem o que querem. (Brazil has always been a backwater whose sneaky, backstabbing elites do whatever they please) — Paulo Francis
Entenda a prisão de Eliana Tranchesi e veja cronologia do caso: The Estado de S. Paulo offers a chronology of l’affaire Daslu, [...]

“Headhunters Enforced Death Penalty for Nonpayment of Bribes”

The gruesome end of Lampião, July 1938. São Paulo military police allegedly consider beheadings an oldie but goodie of proper police procedure. Go figure. Click to enlarge.

The police suspect that of the 12 murders attributed to the Highlanders … at least 7 took place because the victims refused to pay a bribe.
Polícia apura se “Highlanders” [...]

From the Annals of Sambodian Anomie: Heads Roll in Cop Decapitation Case

The gruesome end of Lampião, July 1938. São Paulo military police allegedly consider beheadings an oldie but goodie of proper police procedure. Go figure. Click to enlarge.

Polícia Civil indicia 14 PMs suspeitos de decapitar vítimas na Grande SP: 18 São Paulo policemen indicted in the case of an alleged death squad whose calling card was [...]

Sangue Frias: Folha Publisher on the Dictatorship Debacle

A cartoon on the subject embellishes an iconic image of the “suicide” of TV Cultura journalist Vlado Herzog. “The Brazilian military dictatorship according to the Folha de S. Paulo”

Luis Nassif notes: The publisher of the Folha de S. Paulo offers a backhanded repudiation of editorial characterizing the military dictatorship of 1964-1985 as a “soft dictatorship” [...]

The Ditabranda Debate: The Folha de S. Paulo’s Antidemocracy Lite

A Folha e a ditabranda: The Folha de S. Paulo runs an editorial calling the military dictatorship of 1954-1985 a ditabranda (“soft dictatorship”).
The term is a play on words between dura (“hard”) and branda (“soft”).
As Luiz Carlos Azenha points out, the phrase is not original to the Folha, a metro daily [...]