Two journalists killed in a week cause alarm in Brazil

Posted on February 15, 2012 • Filed under: Brazil, Corruption, Crime, Social Issues

The death of two journalists in a week in Brazil has sounded alarms and increased concern in the government of Dilma Rousseff. The murder, last Thursday, Randolfo Mario Marques Lopes, who was kidnapped along with his girlfriend at home and whose bodies were found in a street in Barra do Pirai in the state of Rio, has joined the Cardoso Paulo Roberto Rodriguez , died on the border with Paraguay. Cardoso, a journalist critical of corruption but never, according to his wife, had threats, received in his body five of the 12 bullets fired at his car by two motorcyclists, who fled the scene without taking any personal belongings of the journalist. Read Article

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