ARTICLES BY SANTIAGO STELLEY
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 OSCAR NIEMEYER
The 101-Year-Old Man Who Invented Brazil’s CapitalOscar Niemeyer is on the infinitesimally short list of people who have designed and built an entire city. A world capital. Sure, Haussmann made Paris into the postcard background it is today and Wren rebuilt London after the Great Fire (by not building everything out of wood—good thinking!). But it’s not like they were lacking in usable models on which to base their work, considering those cities were already functioning metropolises...
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  WELCOME TO BRAZIL
Rio Took a Shit on MeAfter a week on assignment at Vice’s spanking new São Paulo office, I headed to Rio de Janeiro with the VBS crew for a day with Brazil’s most famous ass, Watermelon Woman (see page 48 for that story). Pleased with how things had gone thus far, we decided to follow up with a night on the town. It went well enough but by 3 AM, plenty drunk, I left the others at the bar and headed back to the hotel to get...
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 SUBMARINE SMUGGLING
Dragging Drugs on the Ocean FloorThe greatest obstacle facing drug cartels has always been transporting narcotics from the poor regions that produce them to the less-poor areas that buy them. In the early part of the 2000s, a time still dominated by incarcerated Cali Cartel heads in Colombia, a technological breakthrough was made o...
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 EL NUEVO ALARMA! IS MEXICO’S BEST CRIME TABLOID...
The Vice InterviewAlarma! is the oldest of Mexico's prensa roja (red press) tabloids. It is mostly made up of gruesome news stories, photos of mutilated corpses, and headlines that contain 1960s-Borscht-Belt-comedian-worthy puns about death and pain. We recently spoke with Miguel Angel Rodriguez Vaz...
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