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How This Leftist Black Woman Won in Brazil

Brazil is on high alert as the country goes to the polls to choose between the current right-wing president and former army officer Jair Bolsonaro, and the leftist former trade union leader Inácio Lula da Silva. But they aren't the only ones running for office. 

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Renata Souza is one of the few Afro-Brazilian women running for office in Brazil — and it isn’t easy. Souza has moved homes twice already because of death threats and can’t go anywhere without a security detail and a bulletproof car. She also has to face a very real threat: armed militias that control access to certain neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro.

In Brazil's first elections under Bolsonaro, Black women are fighting back  | openDemocracy

Black Woman Won in Brazil

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