Teresina

“It’s the potato and the quinoa, the corn and the passion fruit, the sweet potato and the yucca. It’s the Spanish cuisine, which was also Middle Eastern … It’s the blend of Chinese, Japanese and Italian cuisines due to migrations,” said Teresina Muñoz-Najar, a journalist and author of cookbooks on Peruvian cuisine.

About three inches of rain fell Thursday night in the Piaui state capital of Teresina, flooding a neighborhood and killing three.

And then there’s Teresina Vasco, who died in 1913 at age 2.

Crisnando Lima, 26, a gay design student in the city of Teresina said he was walking to his local supermarket on Sunday when two men grabbed him and said: “When Bolsonaro wins, we will start beating up gays.”

One street in a working-class neighbourhood in Teresina, in the north-eastern state of Piauí has even been painted in the light blue and white of Messi’s team – the equivalent of a Halifax road being decorated in Germany’s white, black, red and yellow.