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| Abortion |
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An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced, in...
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An alcoholic beverage is a drink that contains ethanol (commonly called alcohol). Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits.
Alcoholic beverages are consumed in almost every sovereign state, and most have...
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Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor.
The rationale for censorship...
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| Homeschooling |
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Homeschooling or homeschool (also called home education or home learning) is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in a formal setting of public or private school. Although prior to the...
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The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public,...
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| Prohibition |
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Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol. Typically, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. The term can also...
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| Privacy |
Privacy (in Latin privatus 'separated from the rest, deprived of sth, esp. office, participation in the government', from privo 'to deprive') is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby...
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To tax (from the Latin taxo; "I estimate", which in turn is from tangō; "I touch") is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to...
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| Civil liberties |
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Civil liberties are rights in Freedom that protect an individual from the government of the nation in which they reside. Civil liberties set limits on government so that its members cannot abuse their power and interfere unduly with the lives of...
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| Traffic |
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Traffic on roads may consist of pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel. Traffic laws are the laws which govern traffic and...
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| Tocantins |
Tocantins (Portuguese pronunciation: [tokɐ̃ˈtĩs]) is one of the states of Brazil. The state was formed in 1988 out of the northern part of Goiás, and construction began on the capital, Palmas, in 1989, in contrast to most of the other cities in the...
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| Fernando Collor de Mello |
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<div id="article-1002" class="article"> Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, pron. , (born August 12, 1949) was president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned to avoid being impeached. He was elected a Senator of...
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| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Lula |
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiz iˈnäsjʊ ˈlulɐ dä ˈsiʊ̯vɐ]; born 27 October 1945), known popularly as Lula, is the thirty-fifth and current President of Brazil.
A founding member of the Workers' Party (PT), he ran for...
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| Freedom of the press |
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Freedom of the press consists of constitutional or statutory protections pertaining to the media and published materials.
With respect to governmental information, any government may distinguish which materials are public or protected from...
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| Goiás | Goias |
Goiás (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡoˈjajs]) is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. The most central of the Brazilian states and most populous of the region, Goiás is characterized by a landscape of chapadões (plateaus). In...
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Alagoas (AL) (Portuguese pronunciation: [alaˈɡo.ajs]) is a small state in northeastern Brazil lying between the states of Pernambuco and Sergipe; touching the state of Bahia along a part of its southwestern border. The southern border of Alagoas is...
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| José Sarney |
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Jose Sarney |
<div id="article-1002" class="article"> José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa Sarney, (pron. ), (born April 24, 1930, in Pinheiro, Maranhão) is a Brazilian writer and politician. He served as...
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Baia |
Bahia (Portuguese pronunciation: [baˈi.a]) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast.
It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de...
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| Minas Gerais | Estado De Minas Gerais |
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, the second most populous and fourth largest by area in the federation. The capital is the city of Belo Horizonte, located near the central area. The main producer of coffee and milk in the country,...
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| Workers' Party |
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The Workers' Party (Portuguese: Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is a socialist political party in Brazil. It is recognized as one of the largest and most important left-wing leadership movements of Latin America.
The Workers' Party was officially...
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Parana |
Paraná (Portuguese pronunciation: [paɾaˈna]) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones...
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Maranhao |
Maranhão (Portuguese pronunciation: [maɾaˈɲɐ̃w̃]) is one of the states of Brazil in the north-eastern region. To the north is the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Neighboring states are (from east clockwise) Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of...
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| Rio de Janeiro |
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Rio de Janeiro State |
Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁiu dʒi ʒaˈneiɾu] ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil.
It is located in the Brazilian geopolitical region of the Southeast (assigned by IBGE) and its boundaries, all of them with other Brazilian states in...
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| São Paulo |
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Sao Paulo |
São Paulo (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃ʊ̯̃ ˈpaʊ̯lʊ] ( listen)) is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial park and...
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| Acre | Território Federal Do Acre |
Acre (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈakɾi]) is a former independent country and now state of Brazil, located in the north-western part of the country. To the north is the state of Amazonas, to the east is a short border with the state of Rondônia, to...
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| Amapá | Amapa |
Amapá (Portuguese pronunciation: [amaˈpa]) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the extreme north, bordering French Guiana and Suriname to the north. To the east is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south and west is the Brazilian state of Pará....
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| Amazonas | Estado Do Amazonas |
Amazonas (Portuguese pronunciation: [amaˈzonas] or ɐmɐˈzonɐʃ ) is a state of Brazil, located in the northwestern corner of the country. Neighboring states are (from north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders...
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Ceara |
Ceará (Portuguese pronunciation: [siaˈɾa]) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is one of the main tourist destinations of Brazil.
Literally, the name Ceará means "sings the...
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| Mato Grosso |
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Estado De Mato Grosso |
Mato Grosso (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmatu ˈɡɾosu] - lit. "Thick Woods") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest in area, located in the western part of the country.
Neighboring states are (from west clockwise) Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará...
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| Mato Grosso do Sul | Mato Grosso Do Sul |
Mato Grosso do Sul (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmatu ˈɡɾosu du ˈsuw]) is one of the states of Brazil. Neighbouring states are (from north clockwise) Mato Grosso, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná. It also borders the countries of Paraguay...
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| Pará | Para |
Pará (Portuguese pronunciation: [paˈɾa]) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northern part of the country.
Neighboring states are (clockwise from north) Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the north it...
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| Estado Do Para | ||||
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| Paraíba | Paraiba |
Paraíba (Portuguese pronunciation: [paɾaˈiba]) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast, where lies the easternmost point of the Americas, a cape called Ponta do Seixas. Paraíba coast has...
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| Pernambuco | Estado De Pernambuco |
Pernambuco (Portuguese pronunciation: [pɛʁnɐ̃ˈbuku]) is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is...
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| Piauí | Piaui |
Piauí (Portuguese pronunciation: [pi.aw.ˈi]) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country.
Piauí has the shortest coastline of any of the non-landlocked Brazilian states at 66 km (41 mi), and the capital, Teresina,...
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| Estado Do Piauí | ||||
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| Rio Grande do Norte |
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Rio Grande Do Norte |
Rio Grande do Norte (lit. "Great River of the North", in reference to the mouth of the Potengi River, Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁiu ˈɡɾɐ̃di du ˈnɔʁti]) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the edge of...
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| Rondônia | Rondonia |
Rondônia (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁõˈdõnia]) is a state in Brazil, located in the north-western part of the country. To the west is a short border with the state of Acre, to the north is the state of Amazonas, in the east is Mato Grosso, and in...
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| Estado De Rondonia | ||||
| Territorio De Rondonia | ||||
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| Sergipe | Estado De Sergipe |
Sergipe (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɛʁˈʒipi]) (officially the State of Sergipe), is the smallest state of the Brazilian Federation, located on the northeastern Atlantic coast of the country. It borders on two other states, Bahia in the south and...
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Estado Do Rio Grande Do Sul |
Rio Grande do Sul (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁiw ˈɡɾɐ̃dʒi du ˈsuɫ] ( listen); lit. "Large River of the South") is the southernmost State of Brazil, and the State with the fourth highest Human Development Index (HDI) in the country. In Rio Grande...
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| Santa Catarina |
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Estado De Santa Catarina |
Santa Catarina (help·info) ("Saint Catherine"; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɐ̃ta kataˈɾina]) is a state in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in the country. Its capital is Florianópolis, which mostly lies on the Santa...
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Healthcare |
Health care (often healthcare in American English), is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical vimto...
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| Roraima | Territorio Do Rio Branco |
Roraima (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁoˈɾajma]) is the northernmost and least populated state of Brazil, located in the Amazon region. It borders the states of Amazonas and Pará, as well as the nations of Venezuela and Guyana. It is the state with...
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| Mikhail Fridman |
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Mikhail Maratovich Fridman |
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (Russian: Михаи́л Мара́тович Фри́дман; born 21 April 1964 in Lviv) is a Jewish Russian businessman. He is one of the youngest of Russian oligarchs (Roman Abramovich is younger). In 2009, Forbes assessed his wealth as $6.3...
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| Communist Party of Brazil |
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The Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil, PC do B) is a political party in Brazil. It currently takes part on the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Worker's Party.
The party originated as a splinter group...
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| Espírito Santo |
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Espirito Santo |
Espírito Santo (Portuguese pronunciation: [isˈpiɾitu ˈsɐ̃tu]) is one of the states of southeastern Brazil, often referred to by the abbreviation "ES". Its capital is Vitória and the largest city is Vila Velha. Those who are born in the state are...
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| Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement |
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The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, PMDB) is the successor of the Brazilian Democratic Movement. It is largely a centrist party, including a range of liberals as well as the former guerilla movement...
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| Brazilian Communist Party |
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Brazilian Communist Party (in Portuguese, Partido Comunista Brasileiro) is a political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1992 by a minority grouping within the original Brazilian Communist Party which in its Tenth Congress decided to abandon...
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| Green Party |
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The Brazilian Green Party (Partido Verde, PV) was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-democracy and sustainable...
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| Party of National Mobilization |
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The Party of National Mobilization (Partido da Mobilização Nacional, PMN) is a national-centrist party in Brazil founded by politicians from the state of Minas Gerais on April 21, 1984, advocating for agrarian reform, termination of debt payments,...
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| Workers Cause Party |
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Workers Cause Party (in Portuguese: Partido da Causa Operária, PCO) is a political party in Brazil. Its origins can be traced back to 1978. On that year, several Trotskyist militants who were not satisfied with the Socialist International united...
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| Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern |
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern CH KCMG PC (July 6 1883 - May 8 1971) was a Rhodesia politician and physician. He was educated at Malvern College and St. Thomas's Hospital.
After practicing medicine in London, Huggins emigrated to...
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| Social Liberal Party |
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The Social Liberal Party (Partido Social Liberal) is a liberal party in Brazil. At the last legislative elections, 6 October 2002, the party won 1 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate.
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| Brazilian Social Democracy Party |
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The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira, PSDB) is a centrist/center-left political party in Brazil. Its mascot symbol is a blue and yellow colored toucan (and its members are called "tucanos" for such reason)...
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| United Socialist Workers' Party |
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The Unified Socialist Workers' Party (Portuguese: Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado, PSTU) is a Trotskyist organisation in Brazil. It is the largest section of the International Workers' League (Fourth International) (LIT), an...
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| Democratic Labour Party |
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The Democratic Labour Party (Partido Democrático Trabalhista, PDT) is a populist, social-democratic political party of Brazil. It was founded in 1979 by left-wing leader Leonel Brizola as an attempt to reorganize the Brazilian leftist forces during...
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| Socialism and Freedom Party |
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The Socialism and Freedom Party (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade, P-SOL) is a Brazilian political party. Among the party leaders are Heloísa Helena (Alagoas), federal deputies Luciana Genro (Rio Grande do Sul) and Babá (Pará), and a number of well...
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| Progressive Party |
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The Progressive party (Partido Progressista, PP) is a centre-right Brazilian political party embracing conservatism and elements of populism and liberalism.
Founded in 1995, as Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB), by the union of the Reform...
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| Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma |
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Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma |
Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma (born 27 January 1949) is a South African politician and was an anti-apartheid activist. She was South Africa's Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Nelson Mandela, then Minister of Foreign Affairs...
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| Cristovam Buarque |
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<div id="article-1002" class="article"> Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque (Recife, February 20, 1944) is a Brazil politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He is married and has...
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| Socialist People's Party |
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The Socialist People's Party (Partido Popular Socialista, PPS) is a political party in Brazil.It is the tenth largest party in the Brazilian National Congress, with 15 out of 513 deputies, and 1 out of 81 senators.
It was founded in 1992, after the...
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| Brazilian Socialist Party |
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The Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro, PSB), is a political party in Brazil. It was founded as the Party of the Democratic Left in 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, and took its current name on August 6, 1947. Miguel Arraes led the...
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