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title: "Brazil is Swinging to the Right. Here's Why."
description: "Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula into October's runoff with Congress already in rightist hands — a shift driven less by Washington than by crime and a cost-of-living crisis that Lula's two-decade-old platform no longer answers."
url: https://fronts.co/videos/brazil-is-swinging-to-the-right-heres-why.md
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  - name: Simon Whistler
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Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula into October's runoff with Congress already in rightist hands — a shift driven less by Washington than by crime and a cost-of-living crisis that Lula's two-decade-old platform no longer answers.

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Full analysis is behind the paywall. Read the gated piece at https://fronts.co/videos/brazil-is-swinging-to-the-right-heres-why/.
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