However, a ban on last-minute campaigning was widely ignored. Elections in Brazil are a joke. Everyone knows who will win in advance. Racism is rampant. African-Brazilians are treated as second class citizens.
Life is cheap.
Women give birth on sinks in public hospitals. The sick die waiting in hospital queues before they see a doctor. The police is corrupt and crimminal. The education system is in tatters. People are starving to death in some of the poorer states in Brazil.