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Benedita da Silva grew up in poverty in a favela in Rio de Janeiro with her 15 brothers and sisters. She tells Matthew Bannister how she overcame this adversity to become the country's first black female Senator

Image: Benedita da Silva
Credit: JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP/Getty Images

Published on Thursday, 9th March 2017.

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