{"title":"Lucas Figueiredo","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"o-operador","title":"THE OPERATOR","description":"Who is Marcos Valério? How did a modest employee of the State Bank of Minas Gerais become a millionaire in just seven years, with a visible fortune of over R$14 million? In \"O OPERADOR,\" journalist Lucas Figueiredo investigates Valério's first steps into the world of corruption and influence peddling, revealing that the valerioduto (Valerian Pipeline) was actually created by the Minas Gerais PSDB, which used the operator's \"services\" to manage its campaign slush funds. And, most surprisingly, Figueiredo shows how the party managed to emerge unscathed from all the scandals.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174994755836,"sku":"9788501072771","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/119061058114511645e67deb75b3e01d.jpg?v=1778318387"},{"product_id":"olho-por-olho-os-livros-secretos-da-ditadura","title":"An Eye for an Eye - The Secret Books of the Dictatorship","description":"The war between supporters and opponents of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964 to 1985) was long and dirty. What was unknown for two decades was that the final confrontation mobilized fewer than 40 combatants on each side, was silent—almost invisible—and lasted 28 years: from 1979 to 2007. A conflict that thus transcended the dictatorship itself. The final battle of this war was fought by two books: *Brazil: Never Again*—the \"bible\" on torture practiced by the Armed Forces—and the lesser-known *Orvil*, the Army's response, on guerrilla warfare and left-wing terrorism. The behind-the-scenes details of this battle, in breathtaking detail, are now gathered in the book *An Eye for an Eye: The Secret Books of the Dictatorship*, by journalist Lucas Figueiredo. In the book, Figueiredo—with three Esso Journalism Awards under his belt—reveals the full tension of six years of secret work on \"Brazil: Never Again.\" He also brings to light \"Orvil,\" the nearly thousand-page book the Army produced to counter \"Brazil: Never Again,\" which was never published, thus becoming perhaps the most voluminous secret document of the Armed Forces. After gaining access to one of the fifteen classified copies of \"Orvil,\" the journalist discovered a shocking fact: in the secret book, the Army confesses to involvement in the deaths of two dozen political prisoners and disappeared persons. Lucas Figueiredo was born in Belo Horizonte in 1968. He worked at Folha de S.Paulo as a reporter and chief reporter, and at Estado de Minas as a special reporter. He contributed to \"O Estado de S.Paulo,\" the Brazilian service of BBC Radio London, and the magazines Rolling Stone, Playboy, Caros Amigos, Superinteressante, Revista MTV, Nossa História, and Defue Sud (Belgium), among others. Figueiredo has received the Esso Award, the most prestigious award in Brazilian journalism, three times. In 2007, he won the Reporting award for his series of articles that revealed the contents of Orvil, published simultaneously in Correio Braziliense and Estado de Minas. He has also received the Embratel Press and Folha awards. Figueiredo has authored the books \"Morcegos negros\" (Black Bats) (2000), \"Ministry of Silence\" (Ministry of Silence) (2005)—an honorable mention for the Vladimir Herzog Award—and \"O técnico\" (The Operator) (2006), all published by Record.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175044530428,"sku":"9788501084972","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/0f58fac251a8dc5d4ac724bfd6882bda.jpg?v=1778318147"},{"product_id":"morcegos-negros","title":"Black bats","description":"A thread connects Collor's political rebirth and the case of double homicide without culprits: impunity.\n \nFor 17 years, journalist Lucas Figueiredo investigated the mysteries surrounding the duo, gathering evidence that the PC Scheme had connections to international organized crime. By combing through classified documents in Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, the journalist gained access to data relating to financial transactions between Paulo César and Italian mobsters belonging to one of the largest international drug trafficking networks.\n Originally published in 2000 to great critical and public success (eight weeks at number 1 on the bestseller list), Morcegos negros – a landmark in national investigative journalism – is now back in bookstores with a revised and expanded text. \nIn this new edition, Lucas Figueiredo addresses—in a previously unpublished and revealing afterword—Collor's return to politics as an ally of the Workers' Party (PT), the impunity that protects the corrupt and those who corrupt them, and the ongoing public money embezzlement schemes run by PC \"offspring\" in Brasília. He also includes fresh information about the mysterious fate of the scheme's fortune and, most importantly, explains why Paulo César and Suzana's killers managed to escape justice.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175426638076,"sku":"9788501404329","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/64df55d39410d34610ae60b6eaed3d6d_caaad8eb-5e6f-43f0-9245-0610a4423149.jpg?v=1778324575"},{"product_id":"boa-ventura","title":"Good luck!","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe story of the first madness to sweep Brazilian soil: the gold rush that helped forge our nation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Rain on the head, sun on the back of the neck, plague, famine, wild beasts, cannibals. Betrayal, intrigue, and corruption. These are the ingredients of this adventure. When Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet veered right off the African continent, its compass was greed. Cloves and cinnamon could bring good money in the Old World, but it was the hopes of gold and silver that set the Portuguese heart ablaze. And the European courts. In \u003cem\u003eBoa ventura!,\u003c\/em\u003e Lucas Figueiredo brings to life, for the first time, the hard and long journey toward the discovery of our mineral riches—and its consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eEver since Manuel I the Fortunate and his unlikely ascension to the Avis throne, the Portuguese obsession with easy enrichment had taken root. And it had driven thousands of men into the sea, unaccustomed to hard work on the land, but eager for El Dorado. Spain's fortune in its share of the Americas only served to fuel the delusions of our metropolis. Countless expeditions ventured—and perished—into the Brazilian backlands in search of anything that glittered. Our own Sabarabuçu, the Brazilian version of Spanish good fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Portuguese America was among the world's nine gemological provinces, with soil imbued with precious stones, especially diamonds. But it took more than two centuries for the Crown to see any sign of wealth. And only half that time to squander those resources. In a hundred years, Portugal had burned more than half the precious metal produced in the world during that period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eA succession of profligate monarchs, corrupt administrators, and tax evaders parade through the pages of \u003cem\u003eBoa ventura!\u003c\/em\u003e with a familiarity born of good research. Lucas Figueiredo, with several Esso Awards under his belt, follows the footsteps left in the forest trails by generations of adventurers. And he paints a picture of Brazil's great transformation: spurred by the gold rush, immigration helped transform a squalid colony of 300,000 inhabitants into a robust colony of 3.6 million. The search for the metal helped to occupy and protect Brazil's borders, develop agriculture, and even the arts. Only one thing remains from this period... Its main protagonist: Brazilian gold. Scattered throughout Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176412528892,"sku":"9788501089830","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/40db8ede3ee8fb3dfb72ac91e179a15d_e8205bc2-fa00-4266-a242-52290207af12.jpg?v=1778320454"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/lucas-figueiredo.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}