Edgar Maciel News Today

If you think Australia's eSafety Commissioner is out of line in slapping fines and sanctions on X, formerly Twitter, look to President Lula da Silva's partisan judiciary for a guide to where state-endorsed censorship inevitably leads. As elected politicians are fined and even imprisoned by unelected judges, Big Tech has mostly tugged the forelock to such tyranny, Elon Musk being the brave exception

National security forces have intervened to restore order in Brazil after an estimated four thousand supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, who do not accept the results of the October elections, took over and vandalized the Congress, the Supreme Court and President’s Palace, in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia. Edgar Maciel in Sao Paulo reports.

Brazil and the world said goodbye Thursday to a man who many consider the greatest football player of the last century. Pele died in São Paulo at the age of 82. Brazilians took to the streets to honor their greatest idol in the country's most popular sport. For VOA, Edgar Maciel reports from Sao Paulo.

Brazil, once a minor player in drug trafficking, now ranks among the world’s top sources of cocaine and the main transshipment point of narcotics to Europe. And in Sao Paulo, South America’s largest city, the illegal drug trade has turned entire neighborhoods into wastelands. For VOA News, Sao Paulo correspondent Edgar Maciel visited one of those neighborhoods.

In Brazil’s crime-ridden shantytowns, or favelas, there are thousands of streets and alleyways without names and postal codes. Delivery companies refuse to enter them, and their residents have – as a result – been left out of the E-commerce revolution. As Edgar Maciel reports from Sao Paulo, a 21-year-old entrepreneur is changing that in one of Latin America’s largest urban areas

English December 12, 2020 02:38 AM Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. Download File This program has ended and is being processed for playback. A new generation of digital influencers is emerging in Brazil’s favelas, or shantytowns, where some people are showing that the reality of their poverty is no longer something to be dressed up or hidden.  For VOA, Edgar Maciel in Sao Paulo reports...