chapa branca

01:31 Jun 25, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / police, security
Portuguese term or phrase: chapa branca
O primeiro, foi a forma autoritária com que foi organizada a campanha, sem participação da sociedade, uma campanha “chapa branca”.
stevenharper
Local time: 12:27


Summary of answers provided
3 +1governmental license plate
rhandler
4rubber stamp
Michael Powers (PhD)
4government collusive / government conspiratorial
Vanessa Correa
4a government imposed campaign/ a campaign thrusted on (upon) the people
Denise Miranda


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
governmental license plate


Explanation:
This is the type of license plate governmental vehicles carried some years ago, all white with black numbers. Today, they don't exist any more, but the concept of governmental support remained attached to the expression. I'd use the expression between quotation marks and add a note to explain it.

Look at these examples:

Covert surveillance system for tracking light sensitive tagged ...
... onto a target that may be, for example, a motor vehicle or a cargo shipping container, each of which typically includes a governmental license plate. ...
www.patentstorm.us/patents/6465787-description.html

Turkmenistan Project
He was constantly followed by a green Grand Cherokee with tinted windows with the governmental license plate # 12 37 АН and by a Zhiguli-Lada, ...
www.eurasianet.org/turkmenistan.project/index.php?page=wnb/...

Colorado State University-Pueblo Parking Management Regulations
Service Vehicle: any vehicle clearly marked with a firm or company name; or governmental license plate being used to provide service, commodities or ...
www.colostate-pueblo.edu/univpubsafety/ParkingRegs.asp


rhandler
Local time: 12:27
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Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 52

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael and Raimunda Poe: Yeah I changed my mind, sorry Mike, I actually see license plates like this on the road but today they just say Brazil nothing else, usually found on governement vehicles.
16 hrs
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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
rubber stamp


Explanation:
After extensive research with Google, I have come to the conclusion that this is a derogatory term used for journalists that do not question, but simply give a rubber stamp to the official government rhetoric, and as a result, act like cheerleaders.

Look at the following three examples, including the newspaper "Grandma" in Cuba, and also one that refers to "chapa branca" as "lulistas" for Brazil.

407 IN VITRO: July 2006- [ Translate this page ]Com essa definição simples e clara, a Acne produz filmes, animações, .... Chapa Branca. O sensacional jornal oficial de Cuba, Granma, em sua versão online. ...
ag407.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html - 83k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Garganta do Diabo > Home- [ Translate this page ]DEFINIÇÃO DE UM “CERTO” TIPO DE BANDIDO. Bandido é quem:. - Quem participa de fraude de licitação para ... Declara somente 20% do que gastou na campanha; ...
www.gargantadodiabo.com/Dia_120607.htm - 65k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Entrelinhas: Julho 2006- [ Translate this page ]A revista já foi acusada diversas vezes de ser "chapa branca" ou "lulista" e o ..... TV Digital e a cobertura da campanha eleitoral. A definição do governo ...
blogentrelinhas.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html - 332k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 11:27
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
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government collusive / government conspiratorial


Explanation:
Dependendo dos contextos, pode ser desde official, regular, hypocrite, deceiver, e outros, mas considerando o seu contexto, considero government's conspiratorial ou government collusive.

Veja explicação do termo abaixo:

O termo chapa-branca, de modo geral, no entanto, passou a expressar a postura da entidade ou da pessoa que detém o poder, herdando o velho sentido pejorativo que lhe trouxe a venialidade mal perdoada. Ato ou ação oficial passou a ser chapa-branca, o que associa à expressão o sentido de representar coisas ligadas ao poder ou a ele vinculadas por ideologia, interesses ou algo inconfessável, sem que, necessariamente, coincidam com a vontade ou com as necessidades da Nação. Waldomiro é um pelintra chapa-branca. Mensalão é uma pilantragem chapa-branca. O PT é um partido chapa-branca. Fidel Castro e Hugo Chavez são aliados chapas-brancas. O MST é uma grande quadrilha chapa-branca. Por aí vai.

http://www.debito.org/taniifukuzawan.html
http://www.dailytidings.com/print_article.php?pagename=/2007...

Example sentence(s):
  • O MST é uma grande quadrilha chapa-branca
  • Mensalão é uma pilantragem chapa-branca

    Reference: http://www.ternuma.com.br/bsb158.htm
    Reference: http://observatorio.ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/artigos/asp26082...
Vanessa Correa
Portugal
Local time: 15:27
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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a government imposed campaign/ a campaign thrusted on (upon) the people


Explanation:
As rhandler explained very clearly, chapa branca used to be the governmental license plate. It works now as an adjective that expresses the meaning of sth imposed downwards onto the population.

Denise Miranda
Local time: 12:27
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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