Brazil votes in local polls
Brazilians furious at recession and corruption are expected to punish the long dominant Workers' Party in municipal elections yesterday amid heightened security after a series of murders of candidates. The main battles in the first round of the nationwide polls are in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil's economic capital Sao Paulo. Worries about violence have prompted deployment during the election of tens of thousands of troops to more than 400 municipalities, the defense minister said Friday.
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