Brazil’s lurid political melodrama

Brazil is embroiled in a presidential election full of political melodrama.

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"Brazil, land of the lurid telenovela" is embroiled in a presidential election "full of political melodrama", says The Times. The favourite is right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, known for throwing vitriol at Brazil's black communities, gays and women, and who is nostalgic about the days of military rule.

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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.

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