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Slave hotels of the AmazonDay and night the men roll up outside the Correntão supermarket, a roaming army of impoverished workers, searching for a better future and for work.…
  Moustaches against SarneyJuly 24, 2009
This week was the week of the moustache protest. Following another avalanche of allegations against Jose Sarney, the president of Brazil's senate, a group of Sao Paulo marketeers came up with the idea of a blog where irritated voters…
Give a gangster a cigaretteJuly 23, 2009
If a drug trafficker asks you for a cigarette you give him one. Which is exactly what I tried to do earlier this week. I'd just had lunch in a stunning roof-top restaurant in the Vidigal favela in south…
Dancing at the Festival do…July 23, 2009
Just over a year after we started shooting 'Dancing with the Devil', a documentary about the lives of three men on the frontline of Rio's drug conflict, the film is going to get its Brazilian premiere in September.
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