Brazil Presidential Candidate Campos Reported Dead in Crash

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By David Biller and Raymond Colitt Aug 13, 2014 12:09 PM ET
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Eduardo Campos in Rio de Janeiro in this April 5, 2013 file photo. Photograph: Globo/GDA/Zuma Press

Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos died today at age 49 in an airplane crash in Santos, Globo News and Folha de S. Paulo reported.

Campos, the former governor of Pernambuco state, was running third in polls ahead of Brazil’s Oct. 5 presidential election. Marina Silva was his running mate.

The airplane that crashed has the registration of the aircraft Campos boarded in Rio de Janeiro, said Iris Campos, an aide to the candidate.

A science and technology minister under former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Campos had 9 percent support in an Ibope poll published Aug. 7. President Dilma Rousseff had 38 percent and Aecio Neves 23 percent. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.

Campos made his debut in politics at age 21, when he campaigned for Miguel Arraes, his grandfather and former Pernambuco governor. As a legislator in Congress he successfully pushed a bill that cut pension benefits and, as Lula’s science minister, a measure that allowed stem cell research.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...te-campos-dies-in-plane-crash-globo-news.html

 

[DEAD7]

 

[blackzeus]

We need a Rousseff face

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

in before central bankers caused this

 

[Trajan]

RIP

Campos made his debut in politics at age 21, when he campaigned for Miguel Arraes, his grandfather and former Pernambuco governor. As a legislator in Congress he successfully pushed a bill that cut pension benefits and, as Lula’s science minister, a measure that allowed stem cell research.

Reeks of privilege tho.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

in before central bankers caused this

You know what? After reading "Diary of an Economic Hitman" its hard not to see the pattern here.

For SOME reason all these politicians in central and south america have THE worst planes on the fukking planet

 

[superunknown23]

You know what? After reading "Diary of an Economic Hitman" its hard not to see the pattern here.

For SOME reason all these politicians in central and south america have THE worst planes on the fukking planet

He was flying in a Cessna 560XL, which is a really good plane. It wasn't even a mechanical failure: The pilot fukked up trying to land in bad weather.
There's only been 6 accidents on record... I guess dude was the unlucky 7th

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

He was flying in a Cessna 560XL, which is a really good plane. It wasn't even a mechanical failure: The pilot fukked up trying to land in bad weather.
There's only been 6 accidents on record... I guess dude was the unlucky 7th

dawg, the Ecuadorians think the CIA killed Roldos in the 80s.

 

[superunknown23]

This dude was only a distant 3rd though...
It would've been far more interesting if he was close or leading in the polls.

 

[88m3]

The CIA is either inept or responsible for all the badness in the world?

Can it be both?