With Bolsonaro on the Ropes, Brazil’s Election Takes a Violent Turn

With polls giving his opponent the edge, Bolsonaro is taking a page out of President Trump’s playbook by raising election integrity questions long before polls have even opened. 

AP/Mary Altaffer
President Bolsonaro addresses the 77th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters. AP/Mary Altaffer

Brazilians on October 2 will vote in the first round of an increasingly violent campaign for president that could see the region’s last remaining right-wing government toppled. 

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