A Jewish member of the Brazilian Senate, Aaron Steinbruch, was nominated to run for the Vice-Presidency of Brazil in the forthcoming national elections.
Senator Steinbruch was elected to the legislature last year with the largest majority ever polled by a candidate from the province of Rio de Janeiro where only several hundred Jewish families live. He was nominated to run for the Vice Presidency by a faction which had split away from President Goulart’s Brazilian Worker’s Party.
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