Antes de que Valdez muriera en Culiacán, el asesinato de la corresponsal en Chihuahua de La Jornada, Miroslava Breach, el 19 de marzo provocó manifestaciones de periodistas pidiendo protección y justicia.
One month ago today a burly, middle-aged reporter set out from the offices of the news weekly Riodoce that he co-founded some fourteen years ago, walking toward his car at high noon. He had just penned what would be his last column that morning when his life was brought to an abrupt end by two unknown assassins.
En pleno desarrollo de la Copa Mundial, Jamil Jorge opinaba sobre el auspicio de Brasil desde su casita de ladrillos en Vidigal, favela que mira hacia los barrios más elegantes de Río: “La Copa Mundial beneficia sólo a personas e instituciones con dinero, no a la gente como yo”.
Seven years ago when Brazil was announced as FIFA’s selected host country for this year’s World Cup, Brazilians celebrated in the streets. on the eve of the tournament, polls showed that most people in the very country that has enjoyed more World Cup victories than any other no longer wanted to host the tournament whose final match played out July 13. Why the drastic change in public opinion, over a game Brazilians clearly adore?
