Brazil's poor back Cardoso. (presidential candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: October 1, 1994 | Copyright information

Poor voters have shifted their support to Cardoso, a former finance minister, and abandoned Worker's Party leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Brazil's vital new currency the real has brought economic stability and support for Cardoso.

FROM Babylonia, a hillside slum that looks over Rio de Janeiro's beachfront, glass and steel towers glint below like beads on a long necklace. So splendid is this view that "Black Orpheus", a glamorous movie about Rio's famous carnival, was filmed here...

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