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Journey to Brazil's heart: across 2,600 miles and seven states, we ask – how will Brazilians vote?
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 29, 2018 07:25pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Tom Phillips |
| News Date | Saturday, September 29, 2018 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Twenty-five years ago, one of the titans of contemporary Latin American politics set off on a gruelling 2,600-mile bus journey across Brazil to take the pulse of the region’s biggest democracy and hear the voices of its forgotten masses.
“I’ll have a mouth like a cricket and ears like an elephant,” future president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed as he began a 20-day listening tour later dubbed “The Journey to the Heart of Brazil”.
A quarter of a century later, with Lula in jail and Brazil facing its most unpredictable and divisive presidential election in decades, the Guardian retraced that historic expedition through seven Brazilian states to get a sense of the issues driving the vote – and what might happen when Brazil’s 147 million voters go to the polls on 7 October. |
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