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Correspondent in Brazil for The Wall Street Journal. Brit in São Paulo since 2010. samantha.pearson @wsj .com

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Samantha Pearson
6 years
Ah the optimism of 2010 Brazil!
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A week to go until Brazil’s deeply polarized presidential election - an epic battle between a white male populist tarnished by corruption and a white male populist tarnished by corruption 😬🇧🇷
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My son’s school here in Brazil is sending pupils home two hours before each Brazil game in the World Cup so the staff can watch the matches 🤦🏼‍♀️ I will now be rooting for a quick elimination for the national team 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
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3 years
Brazilian President Bolsonaro calls news network “a load of shit,” tells his own staff “to shut their mouth,” and defiantly takes off his mask during presser. For further explanation, Google “fear aggression in dogs”...
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Irritado com jornalistas, @jairbolsonaro reclama da CNN por ter elogiado manifestações do fim de semana, ataca repórter de afiliada da tv Globo e manda o próprio staff “calar a boca”. Presidente também tirou a máscara após ser perguntado sobre uso da proteção. 🎥: @SamPancher
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Here in the #Brazil bureau, trying to work out how “social distancing caused inflation” (according to Bolsonaro in his UN speech today)
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1 year
So I received more threats and abuse after this message👇 than when I criticized Lula during the elections…proof that a) yes, Brazil is still soccer-mad and b) no, Twitter still does not have a sense of humor
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Samantha Pearson
1 year
My son’s school here in Brazil is sending pupils home two hours before each Brazil game in the World Cup so the staff can watch the matches 🤦🏼‍♀️ I will now be rooting for a quick elimination for the national team 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
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E torcendo para o Brasil, sim. Para os haters doidinhos, segue em anexo uma prova recém-chegada do Mercado Livre para a sua consideração 😂🇧🇷🙏
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Samantha Pearson
6 years
This photo of Brazil's Congress with the caption "A little to the left, Lord" is doing the rounds on Facebook here today......if you still had any doubt over how Brazilians feel about their politicians
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6 years
So...for the next week, the two most popular presidential candidates in Brazil's election will be campaigning from a police cell and a hospital bed. This election is so fucked up, even for Brazil
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6 years
Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro stabbed while campaigning via @WSJ
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Our latest WSJ exclusive on Vale's dam tragedy: Vale's top execs received an anonymous email warning them about the dams only 2 weeks before the Jan collapse.The CEO responded by pursuing the writer’s identity, calling them a ‘cancer.’ With @luciwsj
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Samantha Pearson
3 years
Meanwhile, in the parallel universe of rich Brazilians...what better place to wait out your 14 days of quarantine before going to the U.S. for a vaccine than on a tropical island! 💉🌴
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Samantha Pearson
5 years
Bolsonaro backslapping Prince Charles today in true Brazilian style 😂No. 1 rule when meeting the British royal family? Don’t touch them! (This rule possibly applies to meeting any British person...)
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Cleaning houses, studying chess. How a maid worked her way to a world tournament. “I use it to my advantage. They let their guard down.”
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3 years
*in (mostly terrible) English
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My German friend in Brazil apologizing for being 7 minutes late 😍
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3 years
Pro-Bolsonaro march in São Paulo (12.30pm): Brazilian flags, selfies, signs calling for Communists to be locked up and Congress shut down, beer, random cowboys, Israeli flags, hatred against the Supreme Court, souvenirs, horns, lots of signs in English, very few police officers
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3 years
Brazil’s experiment to vaccinate an entire town provides more evidence that China’s CoronaVac shot works against the aggressive P.1 strain. Our story from Serrana, an immunized oasis in the middle of hard-hit Brazil. with ⁦⁦ @luciwsj
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“Can you drink after getting vaccinated?” is Brazilians’ top question on Google since the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. I ♥️ Brazil 🇧🇷
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“Who’s Gisele Bünd­chen mar­ried to? A football player, right? An Amer­i­can, I can’t remember his name,” said Joel­son Teix­eira, a 40-year-old se­cu­rity guard and soc­cer-lover from São Paulo.
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3 years
Brazil’s maternity wards face heartbreaking decisions as Covid-19 kills hundreds of mothers and babies. “Remove the baby too early and you risk them dying outside the womb, remove them too late and they die from a lack of oxygen.” with ⁦ @luciwsj
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2 years
Packing for Brazil 😂
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Samantha Pearson
5 years
Brazil, I'm confused. So is Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) a socialist?
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Bolsonaro afirma que nazismo, ‘sem dúvidas’, é de esquerda
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3 years
92% of Brazilians always wear a face mask. I’d like to know the % who lied to pollsters
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Folha de S.Paulo
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92% dos brasileiros dizem usar máscara sempre, mostra Datafolha
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5 years
Fascinating! Latin America: no sleep, no $. One reason: poor urban planning/transport? For poorer Brazilians in cities such as São Paulo, it's pretty normal to spend 4 hours of your day on a bus
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Ever wondered about the relationship between sleep and GDP? Me neither. Still, pretty interesting
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Today police identified the 264th victim from Vale’s catastrophic dam collapse in 2019. The fact it’s taken so long is testament to the brutality of what happened…victims’ bodies were obliterated to the point that many - like this mother of two - could only be identified by DNA
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Brumadinho: mais uma vítima da tragédia da Vale é identificada; agora são seis desaparecidos #g1 #Brumadinho
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Samantha Pearson
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@gugachacra Hi Guga, Happy World Cup! May you celebrate the World Cup with love in your heart, numerous goals on the scoreboard, and gratitude for Tite in your being. World Cup wishes to everyone! 🎃⚽️🇧🇷
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5 years
I just got an email from a Brazilian 8th grader complaining about my coverage, arguing that the 1964-85 period should not be called a dictatorship because it saved the country from communism. At least kids here are finally taking an interest in politics?!
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1 year
Brazil enjoyed this one 😂🇧🇷
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Juan Forero
1 year
As far as World Cup upsets go, the game immediately joined the ranks of all-time stunners, alongside France losing to Senegal in 2002, Italy losing to North Korea in 1966, and England losing to a little-known soccer upstart known as the U.S. in 1950.
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Samantha Pearson
3 years
91% of Brazilians want to get vaccinated [Datafolha poll this week]. Just need some vaccines.
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There's a lot of talk about American vaccine hesitancy. Just to note that no country in the world has exceeded >62% of their population @OurWorldInData
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Samantha Pearson
4 years
Loudest pot-banging protest against Bolsonaro here so far...because he’s totally screwed up this time or because more people are at home with their pots?!
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3 years
Is there a way to filter out people’s happy vaccine selfies from around the world if you’re trapped in Brazil? 🇧🇷
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3 years
How not to make a vaccine announcement: a Brazilian case study. By misleading the public over CoronaVac's efficacy rate, Brazil has unnecessarily raised suspicions about what is actually a perfectly viable Covid-19 vaccine with @luciwsj and @Chao_Deng
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3 years
Brazil is now registering more Covid-19 cases than India again (relative to population size)
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5 years
Our front-page story today on Vale’s horrific dam collapse...because despite Brazil’s best efforts to distract us, we’re going to keep covering this important story! (with @luciwsj )
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3 years
Sign behind them is calling for Congress to be “cleansed” (I don’t think they noticed the death threat against Bolsonaro in graffiti)
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Samantha Pearson
5 years
A Brazilian president went to jail today. We barely noticed.
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Samantha Pearson
1 year
I set up Google alerts for the word “Mantega” 12 years ago when I was Latam currency correspondent at Reuters. After a good few years of silence, I cannot tell you how unpleasant it is to be getting them again
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Samantha Pearson
6 years
5 months ago I wrote a story about Brazilians importing US sperm. Still getting these emails. Readers, I do not work for a sperm bank 👍
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Samantha Pearson
5 years
No Waze, we haven’t parked. It’s just a São Paulo traffic jam 😱
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De tédio, ninguém morre no Brasil. Mas por exaustão, sim.
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@caioblinder Que honra poder participar @caioblinder ! E “valiosa e muito cool”.....melhor intro ever hahahaha
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Mother nature trying her best in São Paulo
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Free hypnosis on the street in São Paulo. My first thought was: “wow, that would be a great way to rob somebody.” Too many years living in Brazil. ♥️🇧🇷
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2 years
starring @rcortez_05 , Brazil’s only NFL fan in the 1990s 😂
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Lula’s biggest fear is not prison, it’s irrelevance. This is São Paulo’s main Paulista Avenue right now and it’s not looking good... #lula
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Samantha Pearson
3 years
For those not fluent in Passive Aggressive British English, “while some recollections may vary” = “LIES!” 🔥
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3 years
BREAKING: Statement from Buckingham Palace following Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah
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World leaders and some of the biggest names in soccer paid tribute to Pelé, who rose from poverty to become a global ambassador for what he called “the beautiful game”
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5 years
Scandal. Tragedy. Scandal. Death. Death. Tragedy. Scandal. Death. Scandal. Tragedy. CARNIVAL!!!! 🎉🎉🎉(Brazil)
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Samantha Pearson
3 years
Brazil is now recording fewer deaths from Covid-19 than the UK (relative to population)
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How Brazilians are reacting to their devastating elimination = pretty well and pretty drunk 🎉
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6 years
The mad rush to get home/to the bar for the Brazil game....possibly the only time you will see Brazilians running to get anywhere 🇧🇷 ⚽️
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My Brazilian husband when my British mother makes a restaurant reservation for the family 6 weeks in advance
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From school children to soft-spoken grandmothers, Brazilians are taking the law into their own hands and butchering criminals in record numbers, scooping out their eyes and burning them alive in broad daylight. via @WSJ
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Lula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s closest presidential race in history, cementing Latin America’s shift to the left and marking an extraordinary comeback for a man who was sitting in jail just three years ago. with ⁦ @luciwsj
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Every adult in Brazil’s most populous state, São Paulo, will get their first vaccine dose by 15th September...finally some good news after this country’s Covid-19 horror show. 💉💉💉
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My Brazilian relatives who voted for Bolsonaro in 2018 telling me not to leave the house today because it’s too dangerous to cover the pro-Bolsonaro march….🤔🤔🇧🇷
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Samantha Pearson
4 years
It’s worth remembering how Brazil reached this new low. If politicians from EVERY major party hadn’t stolen so much money over the past few decades, maybe Bolsonaro would never even have been elected.
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Samantha Pearson
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Nothing more depressing than watching Brazil's Congress try to decide procedural issues in real time
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Samantha Pearson
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Sobre a “grande surpresa” de hoje. “Falta reportagem…a reportagem é a essência do jornalismo e ela que capta realmente o que acontece e o lugar do repórter é na rua” (William Waack). Indeed.
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3 years
My father's - very British - description of the euphoria he felt today after being vaccinated: "uncharacteristically chatty with the woman at the supermarket till" 😍
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Brazilians' biggest fears ahead of October election, in order: 1)violence 2)economy 3)unemployment 4)health system 5)corruption 6)inflation/taxes 7)education [Paraná Pesquisas]
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with some Twitter credits to @danielgott and @VinodSreeharsha 😂🙏🙏
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2 years
The Supreme Court said Bolsonaro conceded defeat, his chief of staff said Bolsonaro conceded defeat, part of the press said he would concede defeat. The only person who didn’t say Bolsonaro conceded defeat was Bolsonaro 👀
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3 years
😂 Yup
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@FindlingMary not sure that’s gonna fly with my bosses in New York 😅😬
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1 year
Breaking news in Brazil tonight: “It has stopped raining in São Paulo”
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Samantha Pearson
6 years
A particularly topical work here at #SPArte (english speakers - “kkk” is social media speak for hahaha, replaces motto “order and progress”)
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6 years
At Brazil’s FAAP university, discussing possibly Brazilians’ favourite topic of all time: what the rest of the world thinks of them
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Samantha Pearson
7 years
hard to lose faith in a country where there is a man playing a decent-sounding makeshift cello he made from a broom #brazil
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With their humans at home, dogs had the time of their lives during lockdown. Now, here in Brazil, owners are resorting to everything from dog massages to pooch-friendly beer to cheer them up as they head back to the office. with ⁦ @AlexLJanin
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Cobrindo o TRF-4 hoje
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“Why is the face of King Charles pink?” (news story from Brazil) 😂
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@andre_bida My fourth 😂🇧🇷 Most of the kids live 20 minutes away max. It’s 2 hours so the staff can shut the school and get home etc. Would it be so bad if they watched it at a nearby bar or even at the school?! Kids here have missed so many classes already during the pandemic🙁 (vai brasil)
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Just received a Christmas card from England - congrats Brazil, that might be a record 😬
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Samantha Pearson
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A diagram on Brazilian TV tonight of the intestines of the president-elect after he was stabbed - a fitting end to an insane campaign
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Samantha Pearson
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So what’s the plan, guys? We’re just gonna ignore the protests in Brasília?😂😬
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Bolsonaro’s parting shot at Globo. But he owes them a lot, mainly for airing non-stop violence for the past 4 years-the chaos to his ‘order’
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Shasta Darlington
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Bolsonaro is not well enough to participate in debate on Globo TV tonight, but he can give an interview to rival TV station Record that will air at the same time. Hmmmm
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Samantha Pearson
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Came here looking for funny memes from back home about Theresa May's resignation. Nothing! Brazil, you've spoiled me.
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Samantha Pearson
5 years
Another good reminder of the Twitter bubble: more than 90% of Brazilians are not on here 👇
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Carlos Gustavo Poggio
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% da população q usa @Twitter na América Latina Argentina🇦🇷 12.9% Bolívia🇧🇴 5.6% Brazil🇧🇷 8.5% Chile🇨🇱 9.2% Colombia🇨🇴 10.5% México🇲🇽 7.6% Paraguai🇵🇾 8% Peru🇵🇪 7.6% Uruguai🇺🇾 9.8%
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Samantha Pearson
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WSJ EXCLUSIVE: Brazil prosecutors just filed charges against Vale and TÜV SÜD executives for the Jan. 25 deadly dam collapse. Charges include homicide. With @luciwsj via @WSJ
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Samantha Pearson
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So you dare to be a vegetarian in Brazil? You will eat vomited spinach
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Samantha Pearson
5 years
Reading news from the UK/US/Brazil and quite frankly this year it's hard to work out what is an April Fools' prank story or not
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Samantha Pearson
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What is really bad for a democracy? Incorrect information. The appeals court will *not* be able to ban Lula from running – this will likely fall to Supreme Court many months from now. Moro’s sentence was *not* just based on OAS testimony and is backed by many legal academics here
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New York Times Opinion
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In Brazil, democracy may be further decimated as an appellate court decides whether the country's most popular politician, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party, will be barred from competing in 2018’s election, or even jailed
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2 years
Está todo mundo pegando Covid-19 agora aqui no Brasil né ou só impressão minha?!
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São Paulo: Brazil’s Venice 🛶
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Netflix or Brazil? Robbers in fake cop cars steal a ton of gold from the international airport
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