RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (AFP) The mayor of São Paulo, Brazil's most populous city, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer of the digestive system, the hospital where he was being treated announced.
Mayor Bruno Covas had been hospitalized on May 2. His medical team said Friday that his condition was terminal.
News of his death, announced by the city's Syrian-Lebanese Hospital, prompted an outpouring on social media, with thousands of supporters expressing condolences for the moderate politician and solidarity with his family.
Covas, a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, had positioned himself . . .
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