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Article: BRAZIL: CHARGED WITH VOTING FRAUD, POWERFUL SENATORS LEAVE OFFICE TO PRESERVE POLITICAL RIGHTS.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- June 8, 2001
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By Matthew Flynn
[The author writes for the International Weekly Edition of the Gazeta Mercantil, a Sao Paulo-based financial newspaper.]
Brazilians--at times detached from the political scandals of their country and at other times indignant--have a unique sense of humor in describing the larger-than-life personalities of their politicians. One illustrative joke told again and again is about Antonio Carlos Magalhaes--the powerful political boss of Bahia state and former president of Senate.
Once an airplane left Salvador, the capital of Bahia state, for Europe. In the middle of the flight, the devil appeared and said, "This plane is going to ...