Juiz de Fora

[zhweez di faw-rah]

noun

1. a city in SE Brazil, N of Rio de Janeiro.

Juiz de Fora

/ ʒuˈiʃ di ˈfɔra /

noun

1. a city in SE Brazil, in Minas Gerais state on the Rio de Janeiro–Belo Horizonte railway: textiles. Pop: 502 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

In September 2018, as Jair Bolsonaro campaigned in the south-eastern city of Juiz de Fora, a 40-year-old man pushed through the crowd and stabbed the presidential candidate in the stomach.

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He hit this year's campaign trail in Juiz de Fora, the city where he was stabbed in 2018 - the place where, in his own words, he was "born again".

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"Our country doesn't want corruption anymore, it wants order and prosperity," Bolsonaro, a former army captain, told a crowd early Tuesday afternoon in Juiz de Fora, where he was stabbed during the 2018 campaign that carried him to power on a wave of anti-Lula sentiment.

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Bolsonaro is revisiting the intersection in city Juiz de Fora where he was stabbed by a mentally ill man on the campaign trail in 2018.

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Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pre-candidate for the presidency of the Republic, looks on during an event in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, May 11, 2022.

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