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Brazil presidential candidates make final campaign pitches

October 28, 2018 12:40 PM

SAO PAULO (AFP) - Brazil's presidential candidates made their final push for voters on Saturday (Oct 27), with pitches that echoed the gulf between them: leftist Fernando Haddad held a "peace rally" in the favelas, while far-right frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro took to Twitter.

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