Flora Charner

Sun­day’s vote is ex­pect­ed to be one of the most hot­ly con­test­ed pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in the coun­try’s his­to­ry.

In­cum­bent Dil­ma Rouss­eff lead­ing with a nar­row 39 per­cent, just ahead of the So­cial­ist Par­ty, lat­est poll shows.

In­de­pen­dent out­lets in poor Rio de Janeiro neigh­bour­hoods are bring­ing news to the world.