“President Jair Bolsonaro rallied tens of thousands of supporters in cities across Brazil on Wednesday in a pre-election show of force that featured displays from the country’s armed forces,” the Financial Times reports.
“Paratroopers landed on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach and air force jets flew over the waterfront in a spectacle ostensibly to mark Brazil’s bicentennial anniversary of independence, but which critics said was co-opted by the populist president to coincide with an election rally in the same location.”
“Brazilians go to the polls on October 2, with Bolsonaro trailing his main rival, leftwing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, by about 10 percentage points.”
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