Why Lula’s ‘miracle’ win matters well beyond Brazil
Three weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s political obituaries had all been written. The far-right presidential candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, had come out of the first round of the presidential election with a lead that looked impossible to overcome. At 80 years old, Lula seemed…
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Brazilian presidential runoff result that Report 1's analysis is about; its vote share doesn't conflict with anything in Report 1's truncated text.
8h agoAlso reported by thecorner.eu (found in GDELT's list of news articles)
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