Half a million Brazilians want to break away and form a new country

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hundreds of thousands of people in the south of Brazil have voted in an unofficial plebiscite to separate from South America’s biggest nation and form their own country, organizers of the ballot said. Counting of the 617,000 votes cast on October 1 in the ‘Plebisul’ finished on Tuesday. Organizers said 96 […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/10/05/half-a-million-brazilians-want-to-break-away-and-form-a-new-country/