It's 7pm in VĂtoria and the fireworks started about half an hour ago. Horns are blaring in the streets. All day, you could clearly identify voting preferences around town by fashion choices with Bolsonaro supporters wearing yellow and green and Haddad supporters in red. With 88% of the votes accounted for, Globo is calling the presidential election for the controversial, so-called Brazilian Trump candidate Bolsonaro. This is big news here.
Read a bit yourself: A Momentous Election in Brazil: What's at Stake?
This is an aimless blog that gives voices to small joys, quirky happenstances, everyday occurrences, and occasional pesterings as the author navigates her life paths as an educator, transplanted Wyomingite, traveler, and curiosity seeker.
Sunday, October 28, 2018
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