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Article written by Wyre Davies
Wyre Davies
Rio de Janeiro correspondent
27 October 2014
After winning a second term in office, which will give her party 16 years in the presidency, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff is stressing the needs for unity, writes the BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro.
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