Shock upset on the cards in Brazil

There are only two months to go before Brazil’s elections, and another shock right-wing victory might be on the way in Latin America’s largest economy.

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There are only two months to go before Brazil's elections, and another shock right-wing victory might be on the way in Latin America's largest economy. Polls show widespread dissatisfaction among Brazil's 147 million voters, "who have been bombarded with tales of corruption and shaken by rising crime", says Andres Schipani in the Financial Times. That makes the election highly unpredictable.

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

Marina is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business at their London campus, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Her first book, The Vagina Business, deals with the potential of “femtech” to transform women’s lives, and will be published by Icon Books in September 2024.

Marina is trilingual and lives in London.