Good morning! This week, the presidential election enters the home stretch, with voters ready to go to the polls on Sunday. Brazil will have an unprecedented number of candidates representing indigenous communities. The country is growing, but remains behind the rest of the world.
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The final days of the presidential campaign
In six days, over 156 million Brazilians will hit the polls to elect their president, 27 governors, 513 House members, 27 senators (one-third of the upper house), and thousands of state legislators.
What to expect. In the presidential race, the final days of the campaign will see the frontrunners take very different approaches.
- Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is polling in the mid- to high-40s, will play it safe and concentrate his efforts on convincing the...