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Brazil: Bloggers Sued for Denouncing Corruption in Alagoas

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Politics

Mário Júnior [1] and Alexandre Fleming [2], on Blog do Fleming, denounced [3][pt] in July 2011 that the Secretary of Budget and Planning and Economic Development, Energy and Logistics, Luiz Otavio Gomes Silva, from the Brazilian state of Alagoas, was benefiting “individual customers with government incentives.” Now, in 2012, bloggers were sued [4] [pt] for denouncing corruption.