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Brazil’s presidential campaigning begins, stoking fears of political violence
Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, is not particularly popular among the population, and he is facing some competition in the upcoming election on October 2. So far, Bolsonaro has been criticized for mishandling the COVID pandemic (more than 680,000 Brazilians died as a result) and his roll-back of