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Brazil's got a presidential election coming up on Sunday. It's the usual drill.

There's a first round if no one gets more than 50% of the votes. There's a second round later

this month. Whoever wins gets to lead the country for the next four years.

But here's where things get interesting. One leading candidate campaign from a hospital bed,

another campaign from jail.

This has been a dramatic and tumultuous election in Brazil for a number of reasons.

Sarah Maslin is the economist's Brazil correspondent.

Brazil's in a really tough place right now.

It has gone through the deepest and longest economic recession

in its history and voters are extremely frustrated because of that and also

a series of interlocking corruption scandals known as the Lava Jato or car wash operation.

What many believe to be the biggest corruption scandal ever anywhere in the world.

This bribery and money laundering scheme spread throughout Latin America but the epicenter is

in Brazil and it has already cost that country billions of dollars.

Basically, TARD nearly all of the major political parties and given the sense that the

politics here is just extremely rotten.

Starting in 2014, prosecutors revealed kickbacks between politicians from nearly all of the

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