Death of Presidential candidate shocks Brazil
August 14, 2014  03:48
Brazil was thrown into mourning Wednesday by the unexpected death of presidential candidate Eduardo Campos in a plane crash. The popular former governor of Pernambuco State in northeast Brazil's was just 49 and his death threw October's election wide open.

Today we lost a great Brazilian,' Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said in a statement on the loss of her presidential rival'"a former member of her predecessor Luiz Incio Lula da Silva's left-wing Workers Party's coalition government. Lula and Rousseff's Workers Party, or PT, have run Brazil since winning in 2002.
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