A few days after Carnival in Brazil in 2025, one of the country’s premier samba schools, Salgueiro, issued a blistering critique on Instagram of the Rio de Janeiro judges. Salgueiro is a perennial top finisher, so its fall to seventh in the annual parade hit the school hard. “To the crooks on duty, we issue a warning: Salgueiro will not be intimidated by this gang of thieves that is trying to dest...