You can always tell if there is an election comming up, unlike in the States, even in low traffic areas. All the lovely graffitti I never took pictures of is being covered with these types of paintings of "vote for X" generally the same colors, so one gets so used to seeing them, they kind of blend into the background. I wouldn't doubt that the commitees for the candidates pay much less for this boring version of graffitti by the same artists. For those who don't know, all parties in Brasil have a number and a name, but since the number is shorter, it appears more often. 13 is the number for P.T., Lula's party (the current president ) - partido dos trabalhadores: the worker's party. There are actually so many parties that Brasilians can't keep track of them all, each with a number. I would have thought there would be an order to the numbers according to left or right wing, but no, they are rather haphazzard in their numerical choices.
Now, another fun job, if you want to earn R$10 a day, is to stand on the side of a busy road wearing some kind of propaganda, or waving flag. This poor girl is standing in a median between 5 lanes of traffic on one side, and another 6 on the other, all going the same direction (with a bus station and a another 6 lanes going the other direction on the other side - who says we don't have progress here!). More elaborate displays may include people wearing matching t-shirts, waving in the back of a truck, driving down the road with loud music playing so everyone will turn and look, with or without the candidate speaking. I even saw a guy sitting in a coffin secured to the top of a car, speaking into a microphone and waving at the people on Orla.
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