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BRASILIA, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Brazil and Italy on Thursday signed a naval agreement to jointly develop patrol vessels and logistic support vessels.
The accord, signed by Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim and Italian Under-secretary of Defense Guido Crosetto, also covers technology transfer and the development of weapon and navigation systems.
It will enable both countries to develop security mechanisms for military communications through satellites and benefit systems used in the Project Blue Amazon, responsible for protecting the Brazilian coast.
The Italian defense under-secretary said cooperation in defense may provide business opportunities for both countries.
quinta-feira, 24 de junho de 2010
Brazil, Italy sign agreement to develop naval technology, vessels
Brazil sets up fund to promote trade ties with Argentina
BRASILIA, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government announced on Thursday in Sao Paulo the creation of a 100-million-U.S.-dollar fund to finance Argentine high-tech companies and Brazilian enterprises established in the neighboring country.
The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) will provide resources for the fund, which will become operational within two months and will be administered by two banks on the Argentine side, Argentine officials said.
The initiative was announced following a meeting between Brazilian and Argentine officials on the integration of production and bilateral trade.
"The creation of this fund will help Brazil to develop a better trade relationship with Argentina, increase productive integration among countries, and help Brazilian companies to settle in Argentina," said Miguel Jorge，minister of development,industry and foreign trade.
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega called on both countries to make full use of the dynamic local market.
Brazil and Argentina are both main partners in the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), a regional trade bloc which also includes Paraguay and Uruguay.
Brazil to call for maintaining economic growth at G20 summit
BRASILIA, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will call on other countries to maintain their stimulus measures to boost economic growth when he attends the G20 summit in Toronto this weekend, a government spokesman said Thursday.
In addition, the Brazilian leader will also make efforts to promote reform of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) aimed at greater voting power for developing countries, strengthening international standards for financial markets regulation and an early conclusion of the Doha round talks of the World Trade Organization (WTO), presidential spokesman Marcelo Baumbach told a press conference.
Baumbach said that for the first time in a G20 summit the issue of international trade would be addressed in a whole debate session, during which Lula would stress the need to conclude WTO's Doha Round talks.
"In particular, President Lula will defend the need for world leaders to demonstrate political will to intervene directly to bring the conclusion of the Doha Round with the package on the table since 2008," he said.
According to the spokesman, Lula will possibly have bilateral meetings with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday.
Lula will also meet U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of this summit, he said.
At the Toronto summit, leaders of the 20 developed and developing countries will discuss the global economic situation and take stock of the measures agreed at the previous summits, the last of which was held last September in Pittsburgh, the United States.
The G20 group comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United States, and the European Union, which is represented by the rotating presidency of the EU Council and the European Central Bank.
Oil spill takes toll on tourism on Gulf Coast
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By Charisse Jones and Rick Jervis, USA TODAY
GRAND ISLE, La. — On this sliver of land, summer is high season. And on a typical weekend, Artie's Sports Bar would be crammed with more than 1,000 patrons peering at the ocean.
But this is no ordinary summer. The oil spill that has sent more than 90 million gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico has seeped into the island's bayous, roughly 50 miles from the sunken rig that sparked the leak. And visitors aren't coming. Frankie Marullo, whose brother owns Artie's, says there have been only a few dozen customers a day. And he fears those who are staying away this year may never return.
"The tourism business is shot," he says. "This place is wiped out. It's going to kill this little island."
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Vacationers are starting to steer clear of the Gulf Coast. The worst oil spill in U.S. history, which has endangered wildlife and stymied the fishing and oil trades so vital to the region's economy, now is threatening the multibillion-dollar tourism industry as wary visitors cancel trips or plan vacations to places where they don't have to worry about oil coming ashore.
"There's a big concern it might be fine now, 'But what about 30 days from now, when I'm there?' " says Anne Banas, executive editor of SmarterTravel.com. "So you see some people canceling, but other people booking other destinations right off the bat."
Oil has been leaking for more than 65 days, since a Deepwater Horizon drilling rig leased by oil giant BP exploded on April 20, killing 11 men. On Wednesday, authorities advised people not to swim or wade in waters off a large portion of Pensacola Beach because a significant amount of oil had come ashore.
Florida's Pensacola Beach was among the latest shore areas to be given a swimming advisory. Similar warnings have been issued at various times for the Gulf waters off Fort Morgan, Ala.; Perdido Key, Fla.; and some other parts of the coast.
However, most beaches in the Gulf states of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida have remained open — even if the water has been off-limits at times. President Obama and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, who visited Orange Beach over Father's Day weekend, are among the many government and tourism officials encouraging vacationers to head to the coast and help the tourism industry.
However, a barrage of news reports showing marine life coated with oil and workers scouring the shoreline in spots such as Perdido Key has made beachgoers wary. Lodging owners from Gulf Shores, Ala., to Fort Walton Beach, Fla., say bookings are down, with some seeing a particularly steep drop in reservations for July and August. Charter boat guides across Florida are seeing cancellations and fielding fewer reservations.
And here in Grand Isle, where the population normally grows from roughly 1,500 to more than 10,000 during the summer, locals count only about 100 tourists. The local camps and motels are filled instead with contract workers and members of the military, here to help with the spill cleanup effort.
"It's taken our livelihood from us," says Josie Cheramie, head of the Grand Isle Tourist Commission. "If you don't have tourists and you don't have fishing, what are you going to have?"
Blake Fleetwood, who owns five travel agencies in the New York City area, says that half of his clients who've booked Gulf Coast vacations are considering canceling, even though he's told them most of the beaches are fine.
"It's the fear more so than reality," says Fleetwood, who had a group of 20 recently switch a tennis-playing excursion from Key West to South Carolina. "They just see it's in the Gulf. It's close by. And they have heard so many lies about this oil spill and how many gallons (have spilled) they don't really believe anybody. They think it's better to be safe than sorry."
'It may be the final straw'
For those who rely on tourism for their livelihoods, the spill couldn't have come at a worse time. Summer is prime tourist season for communities dotting the Gulf. Louisiana saw $1.36 billion of its more than $8 billion in tourism dollars generated by its Gulf region last year. Alabama's beaches produced 25% of the $9.2 billion in tourism dollars reaped by the state in 2009. And of the 19 million visitors who flocked to Mississippi July 2008 through June 2009, 5.5 million traveled to the state's three coastal counties.
In Mississippi, the spill could result in a $120 million loss to non-casino tourism in the state's coastal areas this summer, according to a study released this month by the University of Southern Mississippi. And the average daily rates for hotels in the Gulf region continue to drop, according to the travel website Travelocity. For example, before May 15, hotel bookings for June in Panama City, Fla., were averaging $122 a night at Travelocity. But June bookings made from May 15 to June 22 fell on average to $96.
Some vacationers who would have headed to the coast say they're planning trips to other parts of the South, such as North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Arizona, the Caribbean and Europe also are alternative destinations, travel watchers and planners say.
Joe Dew and his wife are among the Gulf Coast faithful who won't be there this summer.
The couple usually look forward to a Gulf Coast getaway each July. It's a chance to take a plane ride and relax in shorefront enclaves such as Naples and St. Petersburg, Fla.
But Dew is so worried about wayward crude that he and his wife have decided to avoid even beach vacation spots far from the spill, including those along the Atlantic Coast. Instead, they will drive 90 minutes from their home to the Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina.
"We knew we weren't going to the Gulf Coast, but we were still considering places along the Atlantic, in South Carolina and Florida," says Dew, who lives in Morrisville, N.C. Then, he says, "We decided the safest thing to do to make sure that we didn't have to deal with anything related to oil was to stay here and go to a place we knew we could count on. ... It's only once a year we're able to get away alone. It has to really count. So I don't want to run the risk we're going to be dealing with oil."
Clear waters but few tourists
A looming problem for the Gulf's tourism industry, says travel agent Fleetwood, is that travelers like Dew who venture to new places may decide to keep going there — and not to the Gulf Coast — in subsequent years.
"The repercussions could go on for years," Fleetwood says. "When you lose groups or vacationers, they try some place else and then they like the other thing just as well or better. This is a particularly fragile time for the hotel industry ... and in the area affected, it may be the final straw."
Parts of the Gulf Coast continue to thrive. Hotels and eateries in New Orleans, many of which have struggled since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, have had their best year since the storm, says Stephen Perry, president of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau. Downtown hotels have had fewer than 2% cancellations since the oil leak began.
The area around Pensacola had also been doing well. Lodging occupancy was up by double digits in May over the same time last year.
But tourism officials now predict a 10% to 20% drop in revenue and occupancy in June and July and a 20% plunge in August, according to a report by Ed Schroeder of the Pensacola Bay Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Julian MacQueen, owner of the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front and several other hotels on the coast, says that before the massive oil leak, occupancy was up 20% over last year. But fear of oil seeping onto local beaches has caused the uptick to go flat.
"Our reservations have gone down and stayed down," he says.
Watching the usual flood of tourists slow to a trickle is particularly frustrating for boat guides and business owners gazing out at clear waters.
"We were just beginning to recover from Katrina, and here we are again," says Mary McLaurin, 58, a store owner in Bay St. Louis, Miss., where oil had not come ashore but tourism is still down 10% from last year. "I can buy new equipment or buy more groceries (after a hurricane), but I can't take perceptions out of people's minds."
Florida fish and wildlife conservation officials say only fishing areas in the northwest corner of Florida have been directly affected by the spill. But Pat Kelly, president of the Florida Guides Association, says charter boat guides throughout the state are reporting cancellations.
"That perception of the big bad wolf — which didn't show up yet — is still hanging over our heads," Kelly says.
Restaurants also are struggling. Amy Martin, whose family firm, McGuire's, owns four eateries in the Pensacola area, says the number of customers is down 50% in June compared with last year, while sales have dropped 25%. "It's worse and worse every day," she says.
Renee Lefeaux, 44, and her family only recently had gotten their beachfront condo on Alabama's Orange Beach into rental condition after it was severely damaged by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
In early June, the day before she says the Perdido Pass was closed to all but work crew barges, she and her daughter went parasailing. Instead of the seaweed tumbling and rolling, it was clumping together in a way that didn't seem natural, she recalls.
"We knew firsthand it was coming," Lefeaux, who lives in Baton Rouge, says of the oil. "It was only a matter of days. ... It was very sad."
Now, the guests who had planned to rent the condo are dropping those plans left and right. "I had booked through August, and now there's not a soul booked the rest of the year," Lefeaux says.
Celebrities, local businesses and tourism officials are pitching in to try to woo reluctant travelers. Hotels are offering steep discounts or guarantees that they'll give guests refunds or credits if oil appears during their stay. Singer Jimmy Buffett, an Alabama native who's opening a hotel in Pensacola this summer, will host a free concert in Gulf Shores on July 1 to promote the coast.
'So many unknowns'
State tourism directors in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, which each received $15 million in compensation for lost business from BP, along with Florida, which received $25 million, say they'll use much of the money for advertising campaigns aimed at allaying vacationers' fears.
"Phones are not ringing ... the way it should be this time of the year," says Mary Beth Wilkerson, director of the Mississippi Development Authority's Tourism Division. "To combat that, we're messaging that we haven't had any significant intrusion of oil close to our beaches."
New Orleans has launched a $5 million campaign, using BP funds given to the state. It's seeking $75 million more from the company to make sure the spill doesn't sully its resurrected image.
"We were doing so well," says Perry of the New Orleans visitors' bureau. "This has the potential, if it's not managed and marketed against, to damage us once again."
Some tourism and leisure business owners say they'll file compensation claims for a share of the $20 billion that BP is setting aside in a fund for victims of the spill that will be run by Kenneth Feinberg, the White House's "pay czar." Some who've already filed claims complain that the process so far, as administered by people hired by BP, has been difficult, with ever-changing requirements for multiple documents. Even if claims are handled better, some fear compensation won't cover losses.
Ed Lane, 56, chief financial officer for Coastal Community Bank in Panama City Beach, Fla., says that it will be hard for BP to make up for what has been lost. "I don't think BP has the means to make everyone whole," Lane says. His bank has seen borrowers back out of loans for second homes, afraid they'll not be able to rent out or ultimately resell the properties if oil reaches the area. "There are so many unknowns. ... How many people are not even looking in this area right now for a home that my bank would have had the opportunity to finance?"
Even so, Dew, the North Carolinian who's avoiding vacationing on the Gulf this summer, says he remains hopeful his family will return — soon.
"We love it," he says of the Gulf Coast. "My hope is that ... the ocean and Mother Nature take care of what's going on in better ways than we can expect. We're hoping next year things will be calmed down and we'll say, 'Let's go to the Gulf.' "
Yahoo Chief Defends Her Site, Strategy
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By SCOTT MORRISON
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Bloomberg Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, shown in May, said, 'We're not going away. This is not a decaying asset.'
Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz faced shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday—18 months into her effort to turn around an unfocused Internet giant eclipsed by Google Inc. and left battered by Microsoft Corp.'s failed takeover attempt.
Yahoo shares have risen about 20% since she took over, but some investors still question whether Ms. Bartz can execute her vision.
One of her biggest moves so far: a 10-year revenue-sharing search pact struck last July with Microsoft, whose Bing engine will power searches on Yahoo's pages, freeing Yahoo to focus on improving its core display-advertising business and beefing up content on key Web properties.
Analysts are concerned Yahoo lacks a viable mobile strategy, an emerging market in which Apple Inc. and Google are staking their claims. Yahoo is also losing ground to social networking. Market research shows people are spending less time on Yahoo as they shift to Facebook Inc.
Famous for her colorful language, Ms. Bartz sat down for a recent interview and didn't swear once.
Excerpts:
WSJ: Your rivals are moving aggressively. Does Yahoo have a limited amount of time to effect a turnaround?
Ms. Bartz: When you talk about rivals, the big three on the Internet are Facebook, Google and Yahoo. People come to us for three different things.
We're not going away. This is not a decaying asset. Yahoo serves about 600 million people a month on the Internet. We are the number one or two site [based on time spent].
WSJ: Analysts are concerned about Yahoo's mobile strategy.
Ms. Bartz: Yahoo's strategy is to make its content as widely available on as many devices as possible and then we can advertise against that.
WSJ: But critics say Yahoo is not being aggressive enough about getting its content onto smartphone platforms like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.
Ms. Bartz: I think that's true. We should do more. Our Android [apps are] going to come out this summer. We were one of the first with an iPad app and we are going to have an amazing mail app on both the iPhone and the iPad. You know what I'm worried about? iPad apps. I'm worried about getting our content on [the iPad] because the content will bring the advertising.
I wouldn't count out Nokia [Yahoo's software will soon power email and chat services on most Nokia phones]. Nokia has [a large share] of the phone business outside of the U.S. Not everybody in India is running around with an iPhone.
WSJ: By doing this deal with Nokia, aren't you going after a user base that you have struggled to monetize?
Ms Bartz: We're trying to get user growth in Asia. Monetization is not number one in Asia, it's user growth. What is Facebook doing? They are getting users. They will monetize later.
WSJ: Google is worried that Apple's new terms for its iPhone and iPad advertising platform could keep large competitors from serving ads on those devices. Are you concerned that Steve Jobs is trying to crimp competition?
Ms Bartz: At this point I don't. He is trying to make sure the quality of ads on his products stays high. The last thing you need on that beautiful iPad [is to] see an ad for Russian brides or teeth whitening.
WSJ: You famously declared last year that you would be open to a search deal with Microsoft if they offered "boatloads of money," reinforcing the expectation on Wall Street that there would be a big upfront payment from Microsoft.
Ms. Bartz: It was a total mistake. My intent was to say the financials had to make sense for Yahoo, that this was not Yahoo under pressure to do something. There were many investors who said: 'Just take $5 billion.' What am I going to do with $5 billion? I [already] have $4 billion in cash. I need a revenue stream.
WSJ: Are you seeing signs of an upturn?
Ms. Bartz: The signs out there are totally mixed. You feel one week there's an upturn, then you get consumer news and you back off a bit. Our advertisers are moving again to get in front of their consumers. A year ago they were frozen.
We absolutely see movement in the economy, but it just wouldn't be appropriate to say this is going to be a straight shot up to the right when you have what's happening in Europe and when you've got the uncertainty over jobs.
WSJ: What kinds of content do Yahoo users want to see more of?
Ms. Bartz: They want to see more local content – things within a five to 10 mile radius that people want to know what's going on, like coupons and restaurants. People love to know other people's opinions, the whole idea of polling, commenting and rating. That is part of how we operate now online.
WSJ: It sounds like you'd love to have a user-recommendation site like Yelp, a location-sharing app like Foursquare and a local-coupon site like Groupon. Would they fit into Yahoo?
Ms. Bartz: The concept of what they do, sure. They're local, they're rating, they're user voted-on. A lot of these things aren't necessarily high technology, it's the process they've set up and sometimes you want to buy companies like that because they already set a process up and have a name. And sometimes you say: "We can do it."
WSJ: Do companies like Groupon or Yelp already have brands established that create a high barrier to entry?
Ms. Bartz: To have a barrier to entry you have to have more of a Facebook kind of a brand. After the 2000 downturn, companies grabbed a lot of technology only to find out it didn't scale. Company ABC is really good, but once you bring it into this size operation, it breaks. Then you are asking: 'Am I buying good engineers who can reengineer it to our scale, or are we just buying the brand and working furiously behind the curtains ourselves to make it work?' When you are large you always have to consider if you can really bring it in and make it work
Japan consumer prices fall for 15th month in May
Japanese consumer prices fell for the 15th straight month in May as deflation kept its grip on the world's second biggest economy.
The core consumer price index, which excludes fresh food, fell 1.2 percent from a year earlier, the government said Friday.
The result beat Kyodo news agency's average market forecast for a 1.3 percent decline. It also represents an improvement from April's 1.5 percent fall, suggesting price declines may be moderating as Japan's economy benefits from a jump in exports.
The government's new high school tuition breaks weighed heavily on prices, dragging education costs down 13 percent during the month. Falling prices for furniture, household goods and clothes also dragged the index south.
Lower prices may boost individual purchasing power, but deflation is generally bad for an economy. It plagued Japan during its "Lost Decade" in the 1990s, hampering growth by depressing company profits, sparking wage cuts and causing consumers to postpone purchases. It also can increase debt burdens.
Core CPI for Tokyo fell 1.3 percent in June. The reading is considered a barometer of price trends nationwide, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Ex-cliente nega ter ameaçado ou matado advogada
Messias confirmou ao G1 desentendimento com vítima por causa de R$ 700.
Apesar disso, negou crimes e alega ter trabalhado no dia em que ela sumiu.
Messias, ex-cliente de Mércia Nakashima, aceitouter só a mão fotografada (Foto: Kleber Tomaz / G1)
Na primeira vez que ouviu seu nome ser divulgado pela imprensa como alguém que teria ameaçado a advogada Mércia Nakashima, Messias ficou assustado. Ele se espantou ao ficar sabendo que, por conta disso, deveria ser investigado pela Polícia Civil por suposto envolvimento na morte da advogada. Quem citou o vendedor em depoimento foi o principal suspeito pelo crime: o ex-namorado da vítima, o advogado e policial militar aposentado Mizael Bispo. Além de se dizer inocente, Bispo chegou a declarar que Mércia fora ameaçada anos atrás por um ex-cliente chamado Messias.
Por causa dessa suspeita, a Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB) incumbiu a Comissão Especial de Acompanhamento de Inquéritos dos Advogados Vítimas de Homicídio da ordem a acompanhar o inquérito policial para saber se Mércia foi mesmo morta por causa de seu trabalho como advogada.
Procurado nesta quinta-feira (24) pelo G1, Messias só aceitou falar sob a condição de que seu sobrenome não fosse publicado. Ele só aceitou também que sua mão fosse fotografada.
Sem ameaças
Messias afirmou que ainda não foi procurado pela polícia para prestar depoimento, mas, se isso ocorrer, pretende dizer que teve um desentendimento com Mércia por causa de uma dívida de R$ 700 que ele tinha com a advogada, mas que foi quitada posteriormente. Apesar disso, ele declarou que jamais a ameaçou ou quis matá-la.
“Caramba, eu levo minha vida tranquilo. Uma correria danada. Eu não tenho tempo para isso. O meu negócio é trabalhar”, disse Messias, que alega ter trabalhado no dia 23 de maio, quando ela desapareceu após sair da casa dos avós em Guarulhos, na Grande São Paulo.
O corpo da advogada foi achado em 11 de junho em uma represa em Nazaré Paulista, no interior de São Paulo. O caso é investigado pelo Departamento de Homicídios e de Proteção à Pessoa (DHPP).
Mércia trabalhou para Messias em dois casos. O primeiro a respeito de um divórcio consensual. O outro, sobre um caminhão penhorado na Justiça. Mércia entrou com um recurso e o pedido ainda nem foi julgado.
Leia abaixo trechos da entrevista:
G1 – O ex-namorado de Mércia afirmou à polícia que o senhor já ameaçou a advogada, que desapareceu no dia 23 de maio e foi encontrada morta em 11 de junho.
Messias – Primeiro, eu trabalhei no dia 23. Foi num domingo, né? Eu trabalhei...inclusive minha esposa estava viajando no dia. Eu estava com meu cunhado. Eu tenho um negócio na [Rua] 25 [de Março] e, de domingo, a gente trabalha na rua. E eu faço cartão também e estava com cliente no dia. Fazendo orçamento, em torno de umas 19h até 22h, num bar. E a gente aproveitou e bebeu.
G1 – O senhor estava em São Paulo quando Mércia desapareceu?
Messias – Em São Paulo mesmo. Na região da 25 [de Março].
G1 – O senhor trabalha como ambulante?
Messias – Eu trabalho com várias coisas. Trabalho com isso [mostra cartões de visita], trabalho com isso [exibe planos de empresas de segurança], rastreador, seguro. E vendo carregador de celular na 25 para entrar um dinheiro. Porque antes eu tinha uma barraquinha, mas a prefeitura tirou todas de lá.
G1 – Mas o senhor chegou a ameaçar Mércia? Mizael Bispo afirmou que a ex dele ficou com medo e pediu para ele buscá-la três vezes.
Messias – O que aconteceu foi o seguinte. Eu fiz o divórcio com ela [Mércia]. Depois, ela [advogada] me ligou para um dinheiro. Eu não tinha por que estava desempregado.
G1 – Ela ligou para cobrar honorários?
Messias – Sim.
G1 – Quanto era?
Messias – R$ 700. Mas o que aconteceu: eu casei [com outra mulher]. Ela não sabia que eu tinha casado. Aí o que aconteceu: eu não ameacei ela. Não ameacei.
G1 – O senhor conhece Mizael Bispo?
Messias – Só uma vez eu vi ele. Foi quando fui fazer o orçamento [a respeito dos serviços da advogada Mércia].
G1 – O senhor foi ao escritório de quem?
Messias – Dela [Mércia].
G1 – O senhor já ligou para Mércia a ameaçando?
Messias – Eu nunca liguei. Ela [advogada] que ligava para mim. Você entendeu? Então foi isso o que aconteceu: ela ligou para minha irmã. E eu pedi para não ligar para minha irmã.
G1 – O senhor nunca ligou para a advogada?
Messias – Não. Entendeu?
G1 – Então na sua versão foi Mércia quem ligou para o senhor cobrando os honorários?
Messias – Sim. Aí ela me procurou e a única coisa que eu falei para ela foi o seguinte: por você ser advogada você não podia estar abusando assim comigo [SIC]. Mas só foi só isso e não teve nada de mais.
G1 – O senhor então estava bebendo no dia em que ela sumiu?
Messias – Na verdade, eu não bebo. Estava num bar fazendo um orçamento de um serviço para um cliente.
G1 – Está casado há quanto tempo?
Messias – Três anos.
G1 – É o mesmo tempo em que se divorciou?
Messias – Sim.
G1 – Tem filhos?
Messias – Só uma menina com a primeira mulher.
G1- E o senhor procurou a advogada Mércia para tratar do divórcio com a primeira mulher?
Messias – Sim. E eu não estou entendendo o porquê disso [de ter sido citado pelo ex-namorado de Mércia como alguém que a ameaçou].
G1 – Chegou a pagar os R$ 700 que devia a advogada Mércia?
Messias – Sim. Quitei tudo.
G1 – Desde então o senhor voltou a falar com Mércia?
Messias – Nunca mais. A última vez foi em 2007. Eu a procurei na época porque morava em Cumbica e ela falou que dava para fazer o divórcio lá. Não teve contrato nem dada. Não teve papel, tudo foi feito em boca.
G 1 – Mas Mércia conseguiu dar andamento ao divórcio?
Messias – Tudo. Quando ela resolveu fazer cobrança eu já estava casado. Foi logo no começo ali e acabou. Morreu esse assunto e nunca mais.
G 1 – O senhor teria algum motivo para matar Mércia?
Messias – Se fosse alguma coisa assim [de matar Mércia] teria de ser uma pessoa [má]. Caramba, eu levo minha vida tranquila. Uma correria danada. Eu não tenho tempo para isso. O meu negócio é trabalhar.
Bastidores: Márcio Garcia posa com o seu dublê
Maurício Viegas é um matador em série que vive se metendo em situações arriscadas em Na Forma da Lei. É nessas horas que o seu intérprete, o ator Márcio Garcia, conta com uma ajuda especial, como na cena do capítulo de estreia em que Maurício levou um tiro de Gabriela (Luana Piovani) após assassinar Eduardo Moreno (Thiago Fragoso). Márcio e seu dublê, Elton Nascimento, revezaram-se na gravação da sequência. Em um intervalo, os dois posaram juntos para o site, vestindo roupas idênticas. Márcio estava com a maquiagem sombria usada por Maurício durante a rave.
Bastidores: Luana se despede do elenco e já sente saudades
Na noite de ontem, 23, Luana Piovani gravou suas últimas cenas como a delegada federal Gabriela Guerreiro de Na Forma da Lei, em um restaurante da Zona Oeste do Rio. Nos intervalos, a atriz posou com os colegas Ana Paula Arósio (Ana Beatriz) e Leonardo Machado (Célio Rocha) e confessou já estar com saudades de participar do seriado.
Luana fez um balanço de como foi interpretar Gabriela: “Ficam as pessoas: o Leo (Leonardo Machado), o Samuca (Samuel de Assis), a Ana (Paula Arósio), o Márcio (Garcia), o Henri (Castelli)… Fica a minha experiência com armas de fogo, que vai me ajudar em um longa que vou fazer ano que vem, no qual também serei uma delegada. Fica a saudade e a sensação de um trabalho bem realizado, uma satisfação”.
Ana Paula Arósio e Márcio Garcia descontraem em gravação
Se na ficção Ana Beatriz odeia o serial killer Maurício Viegas e quem mais o ajude em seus crimes, como o delegado Moreira, nos bastidores de Na Forma da Lei o clima entre os atores Ana Paula Arósio, Márcio Garcia e Ailton Graça é de total descontração. Logo após gravarem a cena do segundo capítulo (exibido dia 22/6) em que a promotora fica apavorada ao ver o filho do senador no fórum, Ana e Márcio encontraram Ailton pronto para entrar em ação. Os atores posaram para o site nas dependências do Palácio Tiradentes, no Centro do Rio, onde gravaram cenas para três episódios do seriado.
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