This week, the main Brazilian magazines offer a very diversified menu.
Época interviews billionaire Eike Batista, on of the 10 richest men in the world. His empire, that goes from mining to tourism, reaches US$ 27.5 billion – thanks to an unbelievable US$ 20 billion growth in 2009.
Isto É remembers a two-year-old crime – the death of Isabella Nardoni, supposedly killed and thrown from an apartment building by her middle-class father and stepmother, whose trial is happens this week.
Veja does the follow up of the previous week cover on a corruption case involving Partido dos Trabalhadores, Brazil’s governing party .
Interesting that Brazil and Mexico have two of the ten richest people in the world, the first from commodities, the second from telecom. But in both cases, they’ve had the sense to expand the empire into many other areas. Once you get the connections and the power, you can work out all kinds of inside deals and monopolies.