Posted on 08/31/2014 10:49:20 AM PDT by Perdogg
Brazil's once humdrum presidential race now resembles one of the country's famed soap operas, with a newcomer thrust into the spotlight by a plane crash and the longtime favorite reeling from a one-two punch of bad news.
With just over a month to go before the Oct. 5 vote, President Dilma Rousseff awoke to newspaper headlines Saturday announcing that Brazil's long-sputtering economy had officially entered recession for the first time in more than five years.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
Apague as luzes?
So we have the incumbent social democrat being challenged by a full blow socialist that also claims to be an evangelical Christian? And both are women.
Good grief can a military junta be far behind?
In before someone trolls in to claim that the socialist, Silva, was the like the Brazilian Tea Party. Thanks Perdogg.
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