From the butcher's shop where he works near Sao Paulo's historic center, Kleyton Zacarioto says customer traffic has been slowing for years thanks, he says, to a long period of rising food prices.
The prolonged squeeze on household budgets has turned the 39-year-old against leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's bid for a fourth term in next month's election. Zacarioto says Lula is the only candidate he knows he will not vote for, though he recognized the president "did good things" when he was first in office in the 2000s.
