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	Podcast:		The Signal
	Episode:		Is Brazil about to elect a pro-torture, totalitarian leader?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:13:42
	Publish Date:		2018-10-25 12:00:00
	Description:		Brazil is holding a run off presidential poll this weekend, and odds are it's going to elect Jair Bolsonaro. He’s known for his far-right positions, having threatened to shoot up slums, and said it would be better for his son to be dead, rather than gay. Bolsonaro emerged as the strong frontrunner after a sweeping corruption investigation more or less wiped out the political class, including the left wing leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. So how does a man like that win an election? And why is the financial world, including The Wall Street Journal, endorsing him?
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