The Bolsonaros…they’re back! Brazil heads to the polls
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The Bolsonaros…they’re back! Brazil heads to the polls

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202625 min
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Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports on this Sunday’s historic presidential elections in Brazil, as the son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro hopes to take power. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is The Guardian. Today, could Brazil's most infamous family be on the brink of a return to power? As the Guardian's Latin America correspondent who has covered Brazil on and off for over

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20 years, Tom Phillips is very used to covering presidential races. And this year, ahead of Sunday's knife-edge election, he once again found himself on the campaign trail. Fora lula! Fora mure! Fora lula! Fora mure!

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I have spent the last few weeks covering the lead-ups of Brazil's crunch presidential election, and a few weeks ago I drove about four hours north from Rio to a town called So, we drove to a small airport outside of town and waited there for what we thought was a plane. It turned out to be a helicopter in the end to arrive with one of the candidates.

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