Today, via Vlad, a newkey man in one of my endless siftings through egocentric networks in Portuguese. It is not for nothing that the Brazilian press picked up on the compliment paid last week to Brazil’s President Dilma by her fellow iron lady, Hillary Clinton. As a major political scandal shifts to high gear in the [...]
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«The lawmaker and the outlaw law breaker».Photo montage: SBT network From the Terra news portal, further developments in the decline and fall of Senator Demóstenes Torres, this time published first in Globo’s Época weekly newsmagazine. Senator Demóstenes Torres allegedly requested the assistance of racketeer Carlinhos Cachoeira in procuring World Cup contracts for a friend’s public relations firm in [...]
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Item: Torres Hires Daughter of Supreme Court Justice | Viomundo. Senator Torres, of the DEM, or Democrats, is heard on 300 wiretaps conversing with a numbers racketeer and political power broker in his home state of Goiás, which surrounds the federal district of Brasilia. The former governor of the federal district, also a DEMocrat, José [...]
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Meio & Mensagem: Brazil’s federal advertising regulator bans a commercial for Red Bull involving the image of Jesus. News sites linking to the YouTube upload of the spot are advised that the company has blocked the video on intellectual property grounds. I translate. After receiving hundreds of protests, Conar today — [March 27] — decided [...]
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Brasil Escola – an educational publication of Brazil’s Record media group — observes, correctly, a major source of difficulty in trying to cover, in any comprehensive way, the actions of corporate, private and third-sector lobbies, and combinations thereof. The trouble is that the lobbying industry here is just about as unregulated as Liberty Valence. I translate: [...]
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Source: Folha de S. Paulo | 19/02/2012 In an item on financial market regulation in today’s Folha, the São Paulo daily appears to be mistaken or confused about the Dodd-Frank Act of 2011 when it summarizes legal provisions that actually belong to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Dodd-Frank deals extensively with oversight of trading, banking and [...]
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Newsvine | A Fair and Balanced Interview with Marina Silva by Globo. Mirabile Dictu.. That is me doing a quick bit of translation about the collision between politics and environmental policy in Brazil. Brazil has only had a forest service for 10 years, to our 110. The obscenely well-organized agribusiness lobby is more interested in [...]
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Valor Econômico, the business daily, is a JV between Globo and the Folha group. Globo also licenses its TV retransmissions to the Câmara and RBS groups. New and noted by the annotator who annotated it: The Networked Organization, Markets and Bureaucracies | Boi Zebu Learning Annex. I managed to wreck a Drupal installation I had [...]
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The Estadao reports: The Brazilian antitrust regulator could actually scotch a merger for once in its life. The matter in question is the concentration of the Big Chicken sector — a proposed merger between two food processors best known for their poultry brands. I translate a little and gist the rest. Raquel Landim, O Estado de [...]
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DATELINE: SAMBODIA — Yesterday’s Valor Econômico carried a special section on law enforcement cooperation and financial crimes investigation training provided by the SEC and FBI to Brazilian federal police and the native securities regulator, the CVM. The key analysis is translated from an article by Jonathan Weil of Bloomberg, who excoriates the PCAOB as a [...]
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