Brazil presidential candidate Campos killed in plane crash

MSN ^ | 8/13/14 | Gustavo Bonato

[illiac]

SANTOS, Brazil, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, throwing the October election into disarray and causing big swings in local financial markets.

Campos' private jet crashed in bad weather as it prepared to land in the coastal city of Santos, just south of Sao Paulo, killing all seven people on board, the Sao Paulo state fire department said. Television images showed smoke billowing from the crash site in a residential area.

Campos, 49, was in third place in recent polls with the support of about 10 percent of voters. While he was not expected to win the Oct. 5 vote, he was perceived by some as the most market-friendly of the three main candidates and his death will set off an intense, if respectful, scramble for his supporters in a tightening election.

President Dilma Rousseff, who is leading the race, announced she would suspend all campaigning for three days in mourning. Senator Aecio Neves, the centrist candidate running in second place, said he was "immensely saddened."

[illiac]

Things that make you go "huummmmmm"

[stephenjohnbanker]

Oh yeah!

[Resolute Conservative]

Brazilicide

[newfreep]

"...he was perceived by some as the most market-friendly of the three main candidates..."

Leftism/Marxism continues it attacks on individual freedom.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Planegate”

[areukiddingme1]

When odumbo was told about 7 Brazilian officials dying in the plane crash his only response was...”Just how many is a Brazilian, more than a trillion.”

[BigEdLB]

When odumbo was told about 7 Brazilian officials dying in the plane crash his only response was...”Just how many is a Brazilian, more than a trillion.”

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[Reaganez]

Not to be crass but the Capitalist candidate dying should help the Centrist challenger against the incumbent Socialist.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Probably the same mechanic that worked on Ron Browns plane.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[AuH2ORepublican]

“... he was perceived by some as the most market-friendly of the three main candidates ....”

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So the most “market-friendly” of the three main candidates was the nominee of the Brazilian Socialist Party? As Yakov Smirnov would say (in a different context), “What a country!”

[dfwgator]

“We got a word for that kinda odd in English, it’s called ‘suspicious.’”