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Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-4431)
POLITICS: My house, my life – my president
The Brazilian opposition complained loudly in January upon reports that President Dilma Rousseff had asked ministers to accelerate and expand the third phase of the federal government’s public housing scheme Minha Casa Minha Vida in order to build 3.5m new homes in 2015-2018, up from the targeted 2.7m in phase two of the scheme, due to be completed this year.
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