And I presume she has been advised to stay out of planes. On the other hand, she may need to stay in a bomb-proof cell.Marina Silva, 56, is on the verge of becoming Brazil’s next president.
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[S] he followed a remarkable path, from working as a maid to becoming a graduate, teacher and grassroots campaigner against deforestation in the Amazon alongside the idolized activist Chico Mendes, who was murdered in 1988.
More recently she became a politician and environmental icon revered for her passion, and perhaps the most prominent defender of the threatened rainforest.
But nothing about her background has been as spectacular as her elevation in recent weeks to the status of frontrunner in the presidential election, which will be decided in October, after the death of her running mate Eduardo Campos in a plane crash.
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Leading polls now show Silva winning a second-round victory against President Dilma Rousseff. It’s a remarkable turnaround given her ticket with Campos of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) had been polling as little as 8 percent before the accident.
Much of that surge can be attributed to Silva’s star power, as well as an unlikely alliance of young leftists, evangelical Christians and a few billionaire backers.
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