They went into the first round of Brazil’s presidential election full of optimism. They were enormously confident that the veteran Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would secure a first-round victory. In fact, even an outright win did not seem far-fetched to them. But election night on October 4 ended in colossal disappointment for 23-year-old Rhian Silva, for Julia de Oliveira Szöke, 25, both history students, and for the Brazilian left as a whole. Shocked, Silva allowed himself only a brief period of mourning before springing into action after Lula called for mass mobilization.
El 25 de octubre Brasil tendrá ante sí una clara disyuntiva, entre el candidato de ultraderecha Flávio Bolsonaro y el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, que ese día se medirán en la segunda vuelta de la elección presidencial.
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