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The Gol's Boeing fall on September 29 lasted about two minutes and a half. The Brazilian Air Force determined that the left wing's tip of the smaller plane, the Legacy, cut off a piece of the Boeing's right wing making it fall in a spiral into the jungle from a height of 37,000 feet, or about 11,270 meters.
For better or worse, Brazil can now look forward to four more years with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as its president. Lula's overwhelming victory, in the face of hard evidence that the Workers Party (PT) he founded was mired in corrupt practices from day one of his administration, must seem astonishing to foreign observers. 
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's resounding electoral victory with over 60 percent of the vote places Brazilian politics on a new footing. While many on the left remain critical of Lula for the limited reforms of his first term, his very victory has consolidated a shift in the country's possibilities for deeper social transformations. 
Nothing new here. Since the Discovery in 1500 Brazil is divided between rich and poor. In the same way, the governments always belonged to the rich, from Brazil Colony to the Empire, from the Old Republic to our days. Incidentally, as during the Getúlio Vargas era, the rich did something for the poor. They did much more for themselves, as a rule, but the inverse situation also occurred during Lula's government: the poor did twice as much for the rich. 
The fat lady hasn't sung yet, but if the October 24 DataFolha poll is any indication, she is stepping up to the microphone. With the second round of the presidential elections slated for this Sunday, October 29, following three televised debates between the incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party and Geraldo Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, the DataFolha poll shows President Lula with a commanding 21-point lead and the highest presidential approval ratings since 1990 when this poll first began.