Unlike in Europe, the left in Latin America is still winning elections — albeit with difficulty.
Brazil’s election, which looked like an easy victory march for ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff, now looks set to go down to the wire.
Dilma Rousseff was placed first in Brazil’s election on Sunday but will face a run-off after some voters were turned off at the last minute.
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/ 28 September 2010
Brazil’s ruling party candidate and front-runner in next week’s presidential election came under heavy fire in a debate over corruption allegations.
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/ 9 November 2007
A monster offshore oil discovery could help Brazil join the ranks of the world’s major exporters, but full-scale extraction is unlikely until 2013 and will be very expensive. The "ultra-deep" Tupi field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro could hold as much as eight billion barrels of recoverable light crude.