‘My Son Will Not Live in a Communist Country’—Inside the Brazil Election Protests

CURITIBA, Brazil—A family sits around a small makeshift fireplace. It’s about 120 degrees F in southern Brazil. They have been camping there on shifts for days, nearly a week. That was the scene for Luiz Henrique and his relatives on Friday, as they, in their own words, reject the prospect of the country going back to what it was under the Workers Party, which now has led Lula da Silva to a new term. The left-wing candidate was Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010, and won a run-off vote by a razor-thin margin on Oct. 30, over a decade after leaving office. His inauguration is scheduled for January….

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