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BY OLAVO PASSOS DE SOUZA On Sunday, October 30, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved a historic victory over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. In the closest race since the restoration of Brazilian democracy in the 1980s, Bolsonaro became the first incumbent to ever lose reelection. The election divided Brazil between the defense
Deep-set enmity means that whoever wins in the Sunday runoff polls, roughly half of the population in Latin America’s largest nation will be left aggrieved. Brazil has rarely been harder to govern and its democracy harder to defend