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...Up those stairs, in a decadent auditorium, beneath a painted ceiling, grandmasters Miguel Santos and Jose Gascón provided live, Spanish-language commentary....
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...changing balance of power and influence among those groups, with Bolsonaro clipping the wings of everyone who could overshadow him”, said Matías Spektor, a professor of politics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas...
...Germán Vargas Lleras, the grandson of a former president and Mr Santos’s vice-president, may be able to mobilise his Radical Change party to boost his current 10 per cent standing in the polls....
...Ms Santos is typical of the millions of voters who seem poised to elect Mr Bolsonaro to the presidency on Sunday....
...In comparison, the fee at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, the leading school of business administration in São Paulo, is R$4,350 ($1,240)....
...On her farm in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, Florencia dos Santos is sheltering from the sweltering heat watching television....
...The party of president Juan Manuel Santos shed a third of its seats in the senate while the Liberal party, although it remains the largest in the lower house, also lost senators....
...“He’s an extremist, he’s for the death penalty, but at the moment he’s the best option,” says Lucas de Lima Pereira Santos, 22, the son of Ms de Lima....
...“Any reasonably sane person of my age had to support Santos, because we saw Pelé play — when I was a child, Santos won everything,” says the 58-year-old chief executive of Itaú Unibanco....
...According to national census data analysed by Bradesco, a bank, and the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university, in the 12 months to November 2015 the proportion of Brazilians defined as C-class fell from...
...He is a co-author of the Bertelsmann Foundation – Getulio Vargas Foundation collaborative study “Brazil and Germany: A 21st Century Relationship.”...
...In the city of Santos, dock workers prevented trucks from entering Latin America’s biggest port. Striking stevedores also blocked access to ports in another six states....
...For many Brazilians, bus companies have been a source of suspicion since at least 2002, when the mayor of Santo Andre in São Paulo state, Celso Daniel, was kidnapped, tortured and killed....
...As Carlos Sundfeld, professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), told beyondbrics, revenue from oil is paid to the federal government, which then redistributes it....
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