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...“The topic of the election will be the economy and on this the president has nothing to say,” says Carlos Melo, a political scientist at Insper, a university in São Paulo....
...“Brazil is the most competitive ecommerce market in the world,” said Fernando Yunes, the head of MercadoLibre’s Brazilian ecommerce operation....
...Luis Fernando dos Santos Lima, a former prosecutor in the country’s long-running Lava Jato, or Car Wash, graft investigation, echoed the sentiment, saying: “Corruption in Brazil remains endemic.”...
...But now, as the city slowly emerges from lockdown, Lisbon mayor Fernando Medina has been reassessing residents’ quality of life in the centre of his city....
...Sometimes it is almost like a religious organisation,” said Carlos Alberto de Melo, a professor at Insper in São Paulo....
...The viewing figures were similar when the same programme, Jornal Nacional, featured his main rival, leftist Fernando Haddad....
...Reinaldo de Melo, who lived next door to the Bolsonaros, recalls that he never had “problems” with the family. The young Jair liked playing volleyball and fishing with friends....
...The party`s ageing patriarch, former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was credited with quelling Brazil’s historic economic curse of inflation during the 1990s....
...Carlos Melo, a political scientist at São Paulo’s Insper university, said Mr Temer could most likely stay in his position until he was proved guilty, unless political pressure made this untenable....
...However, as former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso famously wrote in his memoirs, “hope followed by disappointment is a particularly Brazilian cycle”....
...In Minas Gerais, after 12 years of PSDB rule, the PT’s candidate Fernando Pimentel won the governorship in the first round against PSBD candidate Pimenta da Veiga....
...However, if the past week in Brazil has shown anything it is that “when it comes to politics, anything can happen”, says Insper’s Mr Melo....
...“It was so different, but it was easy to adapt; after 10 minutes I started a 17-km race,” says Victor Melo, one of the students, of his first attempt at snow skiing....
...“This is more than just-in-time,” says Cícero Melo, plant manager. “It’s sequential delivery. Each component is made for a specific car on the line....
...pages BLACK WALTZ by Patricia Melo Bloomsbury £10.99, 224 pages...
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