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The Fifth Floor: The battle for Florida’s Latino voters

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23/10/2020 GMT

The battle for Florida’s Latino voters

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Florida’s Spanish language ad campaigns target Latino voters in the US election

Republicans portraying Joe Biden as the new Fidel Castro, and Puerto Rican megastars endorsing the Democrats: the US election through Spanish language ads in Florida.

Florida makes or breaks the US presidential election, and Spanish language ads have been bombarding Latino voters.  BBC Monitoring journalist in Miami Luis Fajardo analyses the tactics and tunes being used by both Republicans and Democrats to swing the state.  

Egypt’s septuagenarian record breaking footballer
Ezzeldin Bahader recently entered the record books as the world’s oldest professional footballer aged 74.  BBC Arabic sports reporter Marwa Helmy has followed the inspiring story.

A trip to a Russian banya 
Yulia James of BBC Russian shares her love of the famous Russian bath house, the banya: a place to warm up, cool down and relax with friends. 

Nigeria's anti-SARS protests 
Citizen protests against Nigeria’s Special Anti Robbery Squad or SARS turned violent this week, when protesters at a toll gate in the Lekke Island suburb of Lagos found themselves under fire.  BBC Pidgin reporter Damilola Banjo has been covering the story since the beginning, and was there when the shooting took place. 

Making a board game political 
A new board game is about to hit the East Asian market.  It’s called United Front: Fight Back Against China, and pits players representing Mongolia, Taiwan and Hong Kong against invading forces from China.  Politically sensitive to say the least, as Lam Cho Wai of BBC Chinese explains.  

Image: Poll worker at a ballot drop box in Miami Beach, Florida
Credit: EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP

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