A group of conservatives in Rondonópolis, a city in the Center-Western state of Mato Grosso in the heart of Brazilian soy country, erected a billboard last month featuring a massive photo of former president and 2022 presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “Here, this crook is known as a ‘traitor of the homeland.’ Out… Cursed one!”
While candidates are strictly forbidden from distributing electoral material before August 16 (the election will take place on October 2), citizens have begun to decorate their cities with billboards in support or repudiation of politicians — usually Lula or President Jair Bolsonaro, the two...
