What to read by Roberto Merino, candidate for the National Literature Prize

What to read by Roberto Merino, candidate for the National Literature Prize

Chronicler and essayist. Sometimes a poet, sometimes an editor, university professor, and rock musician. Also part of Paula’s history, where he was a columnist. All these things are Roberto Merino, an author, we could say, in the tradition of great Chilean chroniclers like Joaquín Edwards Bello, widely known for mapping and describing a city like Santiago de Chile. Here, a group of voices invited by Paula recommends his works.

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Master, Dark Horse, INSS and Lulinha: The legal cases affecting the presidential campaign in Brazil

Master, Dark Horse, INSS and Lulinha: The legal cases affecting the presidential campaign in Brazil

A few weeks before the first round, the two candidates leading the polls -Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva- must answer for their ties to the former banker Daniel Vorcaro, while fraud in the pension system, investigations against the president’s son, and tensions between the Federal Police, the Supreme Federal Court, and the Superior Electoral Court take center stage in the campaign.

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