The Death Squad Real-Estate Agent

No one remembers who first saw him in the neighborhood, but Emile Maceus was nearly cer­tain that Emmanuel "Toto" Constant--the man everyone called "the devil"--was now standing on his front stoop. The man was six foot three, maybe more; he wore a coat and tie,...

Last year José Carlos Meirelles, who works for the Brazilian government agency set up to protect the country's indigenous populations, released photographs that captivated the public imagination. Taken from an airplane swooping over the Amazon jungle, the pictures showed a group of Indians--their faces streaked with war paint, their...