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Workers’ Party (PT) candidate, former president Lula da Silva, won the Brazilian presidency with just over 50 percent of the vote in the runoff election held on October 30. Incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing nationalist, received 49.10%. Helping Lula achieve his narrow victory was the early support of alternate party candidates that came in third

“Many of the children we welcome here are undernourished,” says Simone Rego, a Brazilian teacher who runs Academia Carolinas, a small, self-managed socio-cultural centre on the outskirts of São (...)