Theme: Brazil

The Transnational Legal Coalition (TLC) filed 14 suspected money-laundering complaints on Wednesday against JBS, its financiers and service providers, with notifications sent to regulators in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The complaints rest on research commissioned from AidEnvironment, which linked the company’s direct and indirect supply chain to more than 6.5 million hectares cleared in the Amazon since 1988, and JBS says it cannot comment without access to the study’s methodology.

Brazil’s COP30 presidency presented two international Roadmaps to speed the shift away from fossil fuels and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030. The documents address the two largest drivers of climate change — energy, at 75% of emissions, and forest loss, at 11% — but are voluntary and non-prescriptive, with no obligations, national targets or accountability mechanisms, according to TNC Brasil. Annual forest finance needs to jump from $84.5 billion in 2023 to more than $300 billion in 2030.

An understanding between pro-government and opposition senators cleared the way for a vote on a proposal to lower the age of criminal responsibility this Wednesday (4), one day after approval of the Public Security Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC). The move, however, faces disagreements inside the Workers’ Party (PT), as lawmakers debate different criteria for holding teenagers criminally responsible.

The Senate plenary approved in two rounds on Tuesday the Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) on Public Security, keeping the version sent by the Chamber of Deputies and leaving out the reduction of the age of criminal responsibility. The vote was 73 to zero in the first round and 75 to zero in the second. The proposal writes the Unified Public Security System (Susp) into the Constitution, a system created by law in 2018 that provides for coordination among security agencies at different levels of government. At least 49 votes in favor were required in each round to approve the constitutional change.

Rystad Energy cut Brazil’s announced data center pipeline by roughly two-thirds, from 21 GW to about 7 GW, citing regulatory uncertainty, severe grid congestion and limited access to reliable power. Under the Redata tax regime (Law No. 15,504/2026), enacted in September, the tax exemptions are neither automatic nor permanent: they are time-bound and contingent on meeting strict operational criteria. Still pending is the decision on whether natural gas generation qualifies as low-emission power. Bill 3716/2026, which reallocates battery storage integration costs from generators to all system users, is being fast-tracked in Congress and must be approved before the Brazilian electricity regulator ANEEL holds its inaugural capacity auction in December.

Brazil’s government presented on Tuesday the world’s first global roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels, arguing that countries can break their dependence on coal, oil and gas without waiting for new technologies, according to the Guardian. The roadmaps are not binding, contain no deadlines or milestones and leave it to each country to diagnose its own dependence on fossil fuels before choosing policies. Among the suggested steps are urgently cutting the flaring and venting of gas at extraction sites, reducing fossil fuel subsidies and expanding renewable generation. The forests roadmap estimates that about US$300 billion a year will be needed by 2030 and US$500 billion a year by 2050, against about US$85 billion available today. André Corrêa do Lago, Brazil’s president of the UN climate summit (COP30), said the roadmaps are documents of implementation and should be taken up by finance, transport, energy and infrastructure ministries in each country. Joeri Rogelj, a professor at Imperial College London, said the roadmaps are valuable but fall short of indicating the pace of change needed because they include no timeline or key benchmarks.

According to G1, Argentina’s migration system recorded three entries by Flávio Bolsonaro in the same van — at 10:37 p.m. with an Italian passport, at 10:40 p.m. with a driver’s license and at 11:11 p.m. with a Brazilian passport. The senator had left Brazil after the Supreme Federal Court (STF) ordered him to surrender his passports to the Federal Police (PF); in the other van were the driver, lawyer Roberto Jorge Alexandre and Israeli national Menachem Booky Halevy, described as a former Israeli intelligence officer.

The Argentine newspaper Clarín reported that US agents took control of part of Porto Iguaçu airport to help Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil, according to Folha de S.Paulo, which cites Friday’s (30) edition. Estadão also attributes to Clarín the account that Flávio fled to the United States after an electoral defeat, in an operation that involved American help and the use of private jets.

The free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) took effect for trade between Brazil and Norway this Sunday, November 1, Valor Econômico reported. Counting farm and industrial goods, nearly 99 percent of the value of Brazilian exports to the bloc, 99.8 percent in Norway's case, will have duty-free access. From January to September 2026, trade between Brazil and Norway reached US$ 1.7 billion, with a US$ 290.6 million surplus for Brazil, according to Poder360.

A digital popularity index by Quaest Consultoria showed Lula rising from 70.7 to 83.3 points in four days, while Flávio Bolsonaro varied less and reached 80.4 points, according to Brasil 247. The digital turnaround came after federal deputy André Janones took over the coordination of the online mobilization, according to the report.

A former agent of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, reportedly accompanied Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on his flight from Brazil to Argentina, according to Opera Mundi. The information was published in Israel this Sunday, November 1, by The Jerusalem Post, based on a Brazilian Federal Police investigation obtained by CNN Brasil.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday in Atlanta that the Trump administration did not facilitate Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure from Brazil to the United States. Rubio said the government had word that Bolsonaro had arrived in the country, that he had previously held a visa and that the president decided to allow him to enter, adding that Washington was not “involved directly in any of the moves that were made.”

President Donald Trump said Brazilian politician Flávio Bolsonaro can remain in the United States for as long as he wishes, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Times of India. “He can stay here as long as he wants,” Trump said, according to the agency. “In my opinion, the election was a disgrace.” Bolsonaro entered the US under humanitarian parole, Reuters previously reported, a status generally granted for a limited period, typically one year.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President Donald Trump’s administration did not help Brazil’s defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro flee to the United States after he lost a run-off to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “We didn’t facilitate anything,” Rubio told reporters on Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia, where diplomats from the Group of 20 largest world economies were gathered. Trump said Bolsonaro “got treated very shabbily, very shabbily” and “can stay here as long as he wants”, speaking to reporters at his Florida residence on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago that Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro can stay in the United States “as long as he wants.” Trump told reporters he has no plans to meet Bolsonaro, who fled to the US after his election loss, according to the Times of Israel.

An investigation by a Brazilian security agency, revealed by CNN Brasil on Friday, found that a former Mossad agent who became a naturalized US citizen helped Flavio Bolsonaro leave the country in violation of a judicial order, according to the Jerusalem Post, which cites the report. According to the newspaper, the former agent arrived in Brazil on October 19 and accompanied the senator from Brasilia to the border, crossing the Tancredo Neves Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú in a van; the family then boarded a Gulfstream G400 jet operated by the Argentine airline Baires Fly, which refueled in Guayaquil and landed on Wednesday morning at Opa-locka Executive Airport near Miami. The State Department had said Flavio and his family would be granted US visas before his arrival in Miami. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had ordered the senator’s passports seized and barred him from leaving the country, and the Federal Police said it found no official record of his departure at border checkpoints. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry summoned Argentina’s representative to demand clarifications about possible involvement by Javier Milei’s government, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Ambassador Celso Amorim, international adviser to the president of Brazil, told UOL that Brazil and Argentina are experiencing the worst moment in the history of their relations and that Javier Milei’s government “broke the minimum protocol for diplomatic relations”. In the interview with UOL, Amorim said there would be no “shouting match” with Milei and that the downgrading of Brazil’s diplomatic representation in Buenos Aires, and vice versa, should not be reversed in the short term. “Look, it is all unprecedented and terrible. It is the worst moment in the Argentina-Brazil relationship, but not because of us. We did not commit any aggression against Argentina,” he said.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US government was not involved in the preparations for Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure from Brazil, according to G1: “We were not involved in any of the agreements or preparations he made to leave the country. At least, the US government did not directly participate in any of the actions carried out.” Rubio confirmed that President Donald Trump authorized conditional entry (parole) if Flávio arrived at a US point of entry: “The president made clear that, if he arrived in the United States through a point of entry, he would receive conditional entry authorization (parole). And that is what happened.”

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) reached on Friday, October 30, an exclusivity agreement with China’s Huaxin Building Materials Group to negotiate the sale of CSN Cimentos Brasil, according to Brazil Stock Guide. The proposal values the cement business at R$12.7 billion on an enterprise-value basis, marking progress on a key component of CSN’s asset-sale program to reduce its debt burden. According to the company, Huaxin submitted the most attractive proposal in the competitive sale process launched in March 2026.

United States (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira met on Friday in Atlanta, where both are taking part in a meeting of Group of 20 (G20) foreign ministers. According to people familiar with the matter, they agreed to meet again in the coming weeks, after President Donald Trump’s decision to grant refuge to the country’s defeated right-wing candidate inflamed tensions.

Brazil's foreign ministry asked Argentina for explanations on Thursday afternoon after the defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro passed through the country on his way to Miami, according to a diplomatic source who requested anonymity as they were not allowed to discuss the matter publicly. João Marcelo, the ministry's director of the South America department, received Argentina's chargé d'affaires, María Emilia Cortés, in a brief meeting.

Former conservative presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro said on Friday that he fled Brazil to the United States because he was a victim of persecution in his own country, after losing the election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. According to ABC News, he left Brazil on Tuesday and arrived in Florida on a private jet on Wednesday, after traveling through Argentina and Ecuador. Bolsonaro recounted how police informed him on Monday that his passports would be revoked.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira met in the same room at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta on Friday, the first time they shared a setting since Flávio Bolsonaro fled to the United States, where the former presidential candidate investigated for corruption went after losing Brazil’s election, according to EFE, in a text republished by Infobae. Rubio and Vieira shared the table at the foreign ministers’ meeting, hosted by the United States, but held no bilateral meeting. According to Brazilian government interlocutors, no bilateral meeting between the two was scheduled, in principle, as UOL reported.

Argentina's foreign minister denied that Brazil had formally requested explanations over the escape of Flávio Bolsonaro, according to Carta Capital. Brazil's foreign ministry, for its part, summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Argentine embassy in Brasília, Maria Emília Cortés, to explain her government's role in the escape, two Brazilian government sources confirmed to Reuters, in a report republished by UOL.

Democratic lawmakers in the US pressed Trump to recognize the result of Brazil’s election and criticized his remarks about the vote, in a statement from the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) signed by Greg Casar, Ilhan Omar and Jesús García, according to G1. “The partnership between Trump and Bolsonaro to contest the election result must end immediately,” the text says, demanding that the US join the rest of the world in recognizing the result.

Brazil’s foreign ministry summoned on Thursday (October 29) Argentina’s chargé d’affaires in Brasília, minister-counselor Emilia Cortés, to demand explanations about the possible involvement of Javier Milei’s government in Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s flight to the United States (US), with a stopover on Argentine territory. The diplomat was received on the afternoon of the same Thursday by the head of the ministry’s Mercosur Department, João Marcelo Galvão de Queiroz, in Brasília, according to G1. The route began on the night of Tuesday (27), when Flávio and his family entered Argentina after crossing the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, which links Foz do Iguaçu, in Paraná state, to Puerto Iguazú, in Argentina’s Misiones province.

Brazil’s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday (30), according to G1. It will be the first high-level meeting between Brazil and the United States since Sunday’s elections and since Senator Flávio Bolsonaro fled to the US, and Washington has not yet recognized the result of the Brazilian election, the outlet reported.

The Baires Fly airline says the flight that took Flávio Bolsonaro to the United States was paid for with $150,000 transferred from a company’s account at a US bank to an Argentine bank, according to The Hindu, in an AFP text. The intermediary holds US and Argentine passports, and the company’s head, Luis Grande, declined to reveal his identity. Grande, speaking by phone from Florida, said he was hired by a broker he has known for 10 years who lives in the US: “I was hired by a broker that I’ve known for 10 years, who lives in the United States.” The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that the plane was chartered by Jason Miller, an adviser to Donald Trump, the report added.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in the United States (US) Congress questioned, in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the role the Trump administration played in the flight of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) from Brazil, including the issuance of a visa for him and his family, according to G1. At least 25 Democratic Party lawmakers signed the letter, according to CartaCapital.

Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) recorded official statements and greetings from at least 107 countries regarding the second round of the Brazilian election, held on Sunday the 25th, according to the court's panel, as reported by Carta Capital. The panel also records formal recognition from 11 major multilateral bodies and blocs of the Brazilian election. China, Russia, India, South Africa, Iran, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom are among the countries that sent statements of recognition and congratulations, according to Opera Mundi.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the G20 foreign ministers' summit, whose meetings will be chaired by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to Brasil 247.

Defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the US, where he declared himself to be the true president of his country, according to AFP. Rogerio Marinho, who coordinated Flavio Bolsonaro’s campaign, said there was no evidence of electoral fraud, as claimed by the defeated candidate, also according to AFP.

White House communications adviser Jason Miller confirmed that he was responsible for arranging the private jet used in Senator Flávio Bolsonaro's escape to the United States, after his defeat in Brazil's presidential election, according to Brasil 247. In a report cited by CNN Brasil, The New York Times recorded that the jet was arranged by a White House communications staffer.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro landed with his family at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Florida shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday, and President Donald Trump’s administration is issuing visas to him and his family, a State Department official told ABC News. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, he thanked Argentina’s government and Trump for helping him leave Brazil and said: “I did not flee Brazil.” He also claimed, without any evidence, that there was fraud in Sunday’s election. Trump told reporters that “we gave him a pass to come into the country.”

President Donald Trump called the result of Brazil's presidential election a “disgrace” and declined to say whether he recognized Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory over Flávio Bolsonaro, according to TRT World. The remarks came a day after Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in the United States and declared himself Brazil's rightful leader despite losing Sunday's runoff. Lula secured 51.8 percent of the vote, according to TRT World.

The president of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Kassio Nunes Marques, and his deputy, André Mendonça, are seeking to distance themselves from Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) after the release of a letter in which the defeated candidate questions the result of the 2026 presidential election, according to Brasil 247. A few hours after the letter was released, on Wednesday night (28), Nunes Marques published a note defending the integrity of the electoral process without naming Flávio Bolsonaro. Jurist Lenio Streck says the letter may amount to falsification of a public seal and that it must be established “whether the emblem was used to give an official appearance to a private statement and who was responsible for that use,” according to CartaCapital.

Donald Trump reiterated that he will not get involved in Flávio Bolsonaro’s case after his escape from Brazil. Flávio’s attempt to present himself as the true elected president of Brazil caused discomfort behind the scenes in the United States government, according to Brasil 247. In Italy, deputy Angelo Bonelli, of the Europa Verde party, asked the Foreign and Interior ministries for explanations about the Italian citizenships of Flávio, Eduardo and Carlos Bolsonaro.

Workers’ Party (PT) lawmakers asked Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) to investigate who organized, financed and facilitated Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure from the country, despite an order from the Supreme Federal Court (STF), according to Opera Mundi. According to Brasil de Fato, the senator crossed the Tancredo Neves International Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú at 10:50 p.m. on Tuesday and boarded a private jet 40 minutes later that made a stopover in Ecuador. Also according to Brasil de Fato, Argentine opposition lawmakers accused Javier Milei’s government of facilitating the escape and demanded recognition of Lula’s victory.

Brazil’s Federal Police are looking into the possible role of Eduardo Bolsonaro in information used to obscure the exit route of Flávio Bolsonaro via Argentina. The force said it found no official exit record for Flávio, his wife Fernanda and their two daughters — but the family’s entry into Argentina was confirmed.

Rogério Marinho, campaign coordinator for former candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, said that neither he nor the Liberal Party (PL) can claim fraud because there is no proof of that. Marinho rejected the election-fraud claims in Brazil and said the party has no proof of it.

The third version of the note released by Flávio Bolsonaro on Wednesday (28) corrected the term and started using “leader of Brazil” instead of “elected president”, at 17:41. Earlier, the former presidential candidate had shared with allies a letter in which he proclaimed himself the “true elected president of Brazil”.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro published on Wednesday (28) a letter declaring himself the “true elected president of Brazil”, sent from the United States, where he went after leaving the country, according to Opera Mundi. Asked whether he agreed with the statement, US President Donald Trump answered that he would not get involved: “I’m not going to comment on that. We gave him authorization to enter the country. But I’m not going to get involved,” he said, according to G1. G1 reports that the document was released earlier as images, thanking international leaders including Trump, and that the senator later published a new version.

Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meet on Friday (30) and Saturday (31) in Atlanta, on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers meeting chaired this year by the United States, according to G1. The State Department has said it will grant visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them to enter the country, after he left Brazil following his defeat in the presidential election.

The Brasil 247 blog says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio named the logistical movement Operation Alba, which took Flávio Bolsonaro out of Brazil, via Argentina, to Miami, where he arrived with his wife and two daughters. According to the Argentine newspaper La Nación, cited by the blog, Milei's strategist Santiago Caputo was in the province of Misiones when the private aircraft departed.

Deputy Myriam Bregman of the Left Front told Opera Mundi that the opposition is filing a public information request in Congress on Wednesday over Flávio Bolsonaro's passage through Argentina. “It is clear that Milei collaborated,” she said. Argentina's National Directorate of Migration said in the early hours of Wednesday that Flávio, his wife and their two daughters crossed the Tancredo Neves International Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú at 22:50 on Tuesday.

The plane carrying Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami after leaving Guayaquil, Ecuador, according to Brasil 247. The Guardian, tracking the trip, reported that the jet had left Guayaquil for Florida, with arrival expected mid-morning on Wednesday. Before the landing, Donald Trump said the family were “fine people” and that “the election was very strange,” adding that he thought it was “terrible,” as he returned from a campaign event in Texas.

The Argentine government confirmed that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro crossed the Brazilian border on the night of Tuesday, October 27 and boarded a private plane bound for Ecuador, according to Opera Mundi. Forty minutes later, at 11:30 p.m., the senator, his wife and their two daughters boarded a Gulfstream G400 from Baires Fly in Puerto Iguazú, with Guayaquil listed as the destination, according to Brasil de Fato. From Guayaquil, the jet took off at 6:22 a.m. Brasília time, with an expected arrival at the executive airport in Opa-locka, Miami, around 10:40 a.m., according to flight-tracking site FlightAware, cited by Brasil de Fato.

Flávio Bolsonaro and three relatives were recorded by Argentine migration authorities crossing the border at 10:50 p.m. on Tuesday, according to G1 — the new development after the departure from Brazil, the US visas and the canceled passports. At 11:30 p.m., the group boarded a private Baires Fly flight with Guayaquil, Ecuador, as its declared destination. US President Donald Trump said he would approve Flávio’s travel to the US: “Well, I would approve. I think they are good people. The election was very strange, and I thought it was terrible”.

Police in Brazil canceled the passports of Flávio Bolsonaro after he failed to comply with an order to hand over the documents, as part of an investigation into money laundering that he denies, according to the BBC. On Monday, the Supreme Court had ordered him to hand the passports to police within 24 hours. A senior State Department official said the Trump administration will issue visas to the senator and his family and allow them to enter the country, after news outlets reported that he fled Brazil after losing the presidential election, according to Al Jazeera.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reelected, called the departure of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated candidate, “shameful” and said the Bolsonaro supporter will “lick the boots of the United States”, according to Brasil de Fato. Flávio, his wife and their two daughters left Brazil and headed to the United States after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes demanded the surrender of their passports and barred him from leaving the country, the outlet reported on Tuesday (27).

The State Department will grant visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them into the country, a senior State Department official told the Associated Press (AP), after the senator’s weekend loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Earlier, Reuters and The New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources, that he had left Brazil for the United States — a case under investigation by the Federal Police (PF) —, and the Trump administration has not said whether the senator is already on American soil.

Argentina’s government said on Tuesday that it will issue no recognition of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of Brazil’s election, according to Opera Mundi. In response, the government argued that when Javier Milei was elected in 2023, “there was no gesture from President Lula to congratulate him personally or anything”, and that, for now, “there is no statement we are going to make,” according to Carta Capital. The government also said trade and Mercosur should not be affected: “They are two brotherly peoples, they trade, they work in Mercosur, it should not be affected.”

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States after losing the October 25 election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, according to two sources cited by The Hindu. Donald Trump’s government is aware of the trip and will grant the senator asylum, according to Folha de S.Paulo, as cited by Opera Mundi.

The deadline for defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to surrender his regular and diplomatic passports expired at noon on Tuesday, and it remained unclear whether he had complied with the order, AP reported. Brazilian police cancelled the passports after he failed to comply with an order to surrender the documents, the BBC reported. Argentine authorities told the BBC there was no record of Bolsonaro entering their country through any border crossing.

Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Flávio Dino ordered the Federal Police (PF) to open an inquiry into possible foreign interference in Brazil's electoral process, mainly through hidden campaign financing, according to Opera Mundi. The ruling, reported by Agência Brasil, orders investigators to establish the nature of the dealings between representatives of the Rockbridge Network and Tallis Gomes and Pedro Sang, including any link between funds, services or other economically measurable advantages and the electoral campaign. It also calls for an inquiry into a possible link between electoral support and the economic interest of foreign agents in Brazil's rare earths and critical minerals.

Italy’s courts hold a new hearing on Tuesday to reassess the extradition request for former congresswoman Carla Zambelli, and the session examines questions from Court of Cassation judges about prison conditions in Brazil, including the guarantee of medical care for the illnesses she says she has, according to G1. If the decision is favorable, Zambelli would return to Brazil to serve a sentence of 5 years and 3 months in prison, according to InfoMoney.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) reportedly left Brazil on the night of October 26 for Argentina on a private flight, to continue on to the United States, according to the Argentine website Infobae, which reported the case early this morning. The general coordinator of Flávio's presidential campaign, Senator Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), denied the information. On October 26, the Federal Police summoned Flávio to hand over his ordinary and diplomatic passports within 24 hours, following a determination by Supreme Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

Chinese President Xi Jinping extended congratulations to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday on his re-election as Brazil’s president, according to Xinhua. G1 reported the congratulation the same day.

Defeated candidate Flavio Bolsonaro abandoned plans to seek the annulment of Sunday’s presidential runoff, but will pursue separate legal action, according to Xinhua — Lula won with 51.79 percent of valid votes against 48.21 percent for Bolsonaro, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE); Liberal Party (PL) president Valdemar Costa Neto published an official note on Monday (26) recognizing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory, according to Brasil de Fato.

Javier Milei is the only South American president who did not recognize Lula’s victory over Flávio Bolsonaro, according to G1. Presidents of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela spoke about the result of last Sunday’s election. Right-wing governments in South America recognized Lula’s reelection despite political differences, according to UOL.

Donald Trump said on Monday that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's win over Flávio Bolsonaro “looked like another rigged election”, according to the Korea Herald. The Liberal Party (PL) later the same day said it acknowledged the runoff result in a statement signed by Valdemar Costa Neto, and fewer than 35,000 votes, about 0.03% of the total, were cast in the extra two hours of voting ordered by the Supreme Court, according to an analysis by Insper professor Pedro Burgos.

Flávio Bolsonaro said he will “organize the opposition” to Lula’s government and reiterated that he would seek to annul the election, arguing that an extension of voting hours on Sunday favored Lula, despite having also requested the measure, in a video posted to Instagram and cited by France 24. The senator and son of former president Jair Bolsonaro did not back down from the annulment request even though he had pushed for the extended hours.

Brazil’s Liberal Party (PL), which nominated Senator Flávio Bolsonaro for president, has recognized incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the presidential election, party chairman Valdemar Costa Neto told TASS. “We recognize the outcome of the presidential election announced by the Superior Electoral Court,” he said.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), defeated by Lula (PT) in the presidential election, said on Monday that he was summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passports and is barred from leaving the country. He called the measure ‘a clear attempt’ to intimidate him and said he will comply: ‘I will hand over my passports and defend myself against this aberration.’ The statements were published by Carta Capital.

In the first trading session after Lula's runoff victory, Brazil's currency dropped 12 percent against the dollar and the stock exchange halted trading for 30 minutes as the Bovespa index fell 10 percent from its previous close, triggering a circuit-breaker. Bovespa futures tumbled nearly 15 percent, according to Al Jazeera. Donald Trump said the election in Brazil “looked more like a fraudulent election”, without presenting any evidence of irregularities.

Brazil's Federal Police (PF) arrested on Monday in Santana do Livramento the Uruguayan Pedro Antonio Mato Narbondo, convicted by the Italian courts of kidnapping, torture and the deaths of four Italian citizens during Uruguay's military dictatorship, G1 reported. The life sentence handed down by the Milan Court of Appeal was converted to 30 years, since Brazil does not provide for that penalty. According to deputy prosecutor-general Artur Gueiros, it is the first time an agent of a dictatorial regime will serve prison time in Brazil for human rights violations.

Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign asked the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) to annul the runoff and extend voting, G1 reported. According to the same report, court justices assess that the annulment request should not succeed, and the court’s president, Nunes Marques, recognized Lula’s victory at a press conference after the vote.

Colombia’s president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, recognized Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the Brazilian elections and defended maintaining cooperation between the two countries despite political and ideological differences, according to Brasil 247. “In the Colombian presidential campaign, President Lula openly backed Iván Cepeda and I won. In the Brazilian campaign, I backed Bolsonaro and Lula won. Neither does Lula decide for Colombians nor do I decide for Brazilians. THE PEOPLE DECIDE!”, he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) on his victory in the presidential election in a message published by the Kremlin's press service on Monday, according to Brasil de Fato. In the letter, which addresses the Brazilian as “dear friend”, Putin praised Lula's efforts to protect Brazilian sovereignty and its “legitimate interests on the global stage”. The Russian president also said Moscow and Brasília will keep working closely to strengthen bilateral cooperation in all areas and constructive interaction within the United Nations (UN), BRICS, the G20 and other multilateral bodies.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) won in 12 of Brazil's 26 state capitals in the runoff, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) led in 14, according to Brasil 247. In Rio de Janeiro, Lula took 51.54% of valid votes in the runoff, after Flávio led the first round in the capital with 47.88%. In São Paulo, the president reached 55.50% of valid votes in the runoff, after finishing the first round ahead with 46.58% against 42.13%.

Mailza Assis of the Progressistas (PP) was reelected governor of Acre in the runoff, defeating senator Alan Rick of the Republicanos, according to a Datafolha projection, Brasil de Fato reported.

Omar Aziz of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) was elected governor of Amazonas with 60.02 percent of valid votes to 39.98 percent for Maria do Carmo of the Liberal Party (PL), with 86.24 percent of ballot boxes counted, according to Carta Capital; with 99.94 percent counted, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) had Aziz at 61.42 percent to 38.58 percent for his rival, according to Brasil de Fato.

In his victory speech, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced “interference coming from outside inward, through digital platforms”, defended regulating the platforms and said he will change the way he governs, with more popular participation and more room for digital communication, according to Opera Mundi.

Flávio Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat and said he will seek the annulment of the runoff over the two-hour extension of voting, a ruling by Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin that he called “unacceptable”, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential runoff with 51.75 percent of the vote to 48.25 percent for Flávio Bolsonaro, according to Le Monde, and said after the Sunday victory that he intends to change the way he governs Brazil, according to Opera Mundi.

Vote counting in Brazil's presidential runoff began on Sunday after Supreme Court justice Cristiano Zanin ordered voting extended by two hours, granting a request from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's campaign. The campaign alleged that authorities in several cities were restricting voter access to public transportation. With the extension, votes for nearly 160 million Brazilians began to be counted, with results expected in the coming hours, according to Al Jazeera.

Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro both asked for the runoff voting to be extended, for different reasons — the president cited buses pulled from circulation in São Paulo and in northeastern cities, saying 40 percent of buses were out of service in the state capital; the senator cited heavy rains in the south and southeast —, and the Supreme Court granted it, extending voting nationwide until 7 pm local time and citing “the seriousness of the facts narrated”, AFP reported. A regional electoral court ordered the arrest of Salvador’s transport secretary for failing to offer free transport on election day.

Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a two-hour extension, to 7pm Brasília time, of the closing of vote receiving in every polling station across Brazil. Hours earlier, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's coalition had asked the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to extend voting to 7pm in cities of at least nine states – São Paulo, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Roraima, Piauí, Paraíba, Pará, Paraná and Rio de Janeiro. In Salvador, checks by the Bahia Regional Electoral Court (TRE-BA) found that less than 50% of the bus fleet expected on weekdays was running.

Brazilians vote on Sunday in the runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is attempting an unprecedented comeback, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who won the first round 47% to 45% on October 4, according to France 24. The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) reported that 900 electronic voting machines were replaced between 8am and noon, 0.16% of the 499,248 in use, and the Federal Police (PF) recorded 22 people detained on suspicion of electoral crimes in at least 17 states, according to Brasil de Fato. São Paulo led the replacements with 163 machines, followed by Paraná (103), Rio de Janeiro (95) and Minas Gerais (75). In the first round on October 4, there were 1,904 replacements in the same period, and no polling station had to resort to manual voting.

City councillor Iara Pimentel, of the Workers’ Party (PT), from Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais state, was hospitalized on the night of Saturday 24 after being hit in the face by a stone thrown by Bolsonarist militants, according to Carta Capital. She was taking part in a campaign event by Workers’ Party members in her hometown when she was struck.

Brazilians head to the polls this Sunday, October 25, facing a stark choice between another four years under veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva or a return to the right under Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, according to The Hindu. Final polls showed the two candidates neck-and-neck. Flavio has pitched himself as more moderate than his firebrand father, who is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for an attempted coup bid after his 2022 election loss.

On the eve of the runoff, Quaest put Flávio Bolsonaro at 51% of valid votes and Lula at 49%, and AtlasIntel/Bloomberg had Flávio at 50.8% and Lula at 49.2%, according to Carta Capital. The consolidated figures of the surveys released on Saturday show Flávio at 51% in Datafolha and Quaest, 50.8% in AtlasIntel/Bloomberg, 50.7% in CNT/MDA and 52% in Gerp, while Lula stands at 49%, 49%, 49.2%, 49.3% and 48%, respectively, according to Brasil de Fato.

A Datafolha poll released on Saturday (24), the eve of the runoff, shows Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) with 48% of voting intentions and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) with 47%, a statistical tie, according to Valor Econômico. In valid votes, the PL candidate has 51% and the president 49%. A Nexus/BTG survey puts Flávio at 48% and Lula at 45%, with a two-percentage-point margin of error, also a statistical tie, according to Carta Capital.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running for reelection, chose Avenida Paulista for the last campaign event of the 2026 elections this Saturday (24), according to G1. The event was expected to include Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, also running for reelection, and former ministers Fernando Haddad, Marina Silva, Simone Tebet and Márcio França.

A Colectta Institute poll published this Saturday, 24, on the eve of the runoff, shows Lula with 50.3% of valid votes against 49.7% for Flávio Bolsonaro, a statistical tie, according to Carta Capital. The survey is based on 3,000 in-person interviews conducted on Friday, 23, in 101 municipalities across the 27 federal units, with a margin of error of two percentage points and a 95% confidence level. Among total votes, Lula has 46.5% against 46% for Flávio; 4.4% said blank or null and 3.1% did not know or did not answer.

The CNT/MDA poll released on Saturday, the eve of the runoff, shows Flávio Bolsonaro with 50.7% of valid votes against 49.3% for Lula, a technical tie. In total votes, Flávio has 46.3% and Lula 45%. The survey interviewed 2,032 voters between October 21 and 23, with a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points and registration BR-02136/2026 at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro debated more diplomatically than usual two days before the runoff election, although neither held back with cutting remarks, according to TRT World. Flavio won the first round with 47 percent of the vote, against 45 percent for Lula. In the debate, Lula challenged his rival's plan to take a “chainsaw” to public spending in the style of Argentina's Javier Milei.

Meta told Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) that it found no evidence of coordinated inauthentic behavior or of violations of its rules by the “Exército do Lula” channel, according to Brasil de Fato. The conclusion is preliminary: the company said other posts are still pending verification and asked for five more days for a complete response.

Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) gave Meta and X 24 hours to explain suspicions of favouring Flávio Bolsonaro, according to Opera Mundi. Justice Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva is demanding that the companies detail the criteria used to recommend political posts, distribute electoral advertising and take content down. A study by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) found signs of unequal treatment in the election and questions Meta's lack of transparency over the prices it charged, according to Brasil 247.

Two polls released on Friday, two days before the runoff, give Senator Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) 52% of valid votes against 48% for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT). The Alfa Inteligência survey has Bolsonaro at 52% of valid votes and Lula at 48%, according to Brasil 247. The Real Time Big Data poll shows the same numbers and calls the race a statistical tie, according to Brasil de Fato: the four-point difference sits at the edge of the two-percentage-point margin of error. The runoff is on Sunday, the 25th.

A new Vox Brasil poll released on October 22 shows President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with 50.6% of valid votes in the runoff against 49.4% for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. The survey interviewed 2,100 voters between October 20 and 22, with a margin of error of 2.15 percentage points. Rejection stands at 47.1% for Flávio and 44.8% for Lula among voters who said they would not vote for each of them under any circumstances.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said “we are going to prove now that we are going to defeat the digital empire” and that Meta “will have to reinvent itself because it cannot think it can deceive humanity all the time”, in a reference to the company and to Big Tech. The president defended “regulation without censorship”, in which “any crime on the internet is treated as a crime in real life”.

The Datafolha poll released this Thursday (10/22) shows Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro tied at 50% of valid votes each, three days before the presidential runoff. In total votes, Flávio Bolsonaro has 47% and Lula 46%; another 5% intend to vote blank or null and 2% are undecided. The institute interviewed 2,520 voters between October 20 and 22, with a two-percentage-point margin of error, either way, and a 95% confidence level.

The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Justice Kassio Nunes Marques, gave Meta 24 hours to submit a technical report on how the “Exército do Lula” channel works, a WhatsApp group supporting the re-election bid of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT). The ruling requires the company to explain the technical criteria it uses to tell “legitimate mobilisation” apart from “potentially irregular coordinated behaviour”. US lawmakers demanded answers from Meta after reports that WhatsApp’s artificial intelligence refused to create images of Lula while accepting those of Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL), according to G1.

The minister Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva, of Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), on Thursday denied a request by presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) to suspend the Lula (PT) government’s official notifications and messages sent via WhatsApp and the Gov.br system, according to Carta Capital. Reviewing the request, Cueva said the messages presented had apparently informative content, with no references to candidacy, vote requests or expressions of electoral support.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign has asked the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to disqualify challenger Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of the final round of the presidential election on Sunday, over alleged interference by social media company Meta, according to the BBC. A report led by the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression cited temporary interruptions of one candidate’s campaign account, differences in audience engagement, reach and view counts, and restrictions on that campaign’s Instagram posts. Meta denied treating the sides unequally and said it would comply with a Brazilian court order to treat Bolsonaro and Lula equally.

The campaigns of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) signed on Thursday at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) a joint document authorizing the full and simultaneous opening of their bank, tax and telephone records, according to Brasil de Fato. The text asks minister André Mendonça to request the data from the Central Bank, financial institutions, the Federal Revenue Service and telephone operators still on Thursday, and the disclosure covers the last eight years.

Globo will not do live fact-checking on TV during Friday's debate between Lula and Flávio, but journalistic and academic organizations will verify their statements, according to Brasil 247. The broadcaster confirmed there will be no fact-checking on TV during the debate, according to Carta Capital.

The campaign coordination of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election bid said the PT candidate accepted his opponent’s conditions for lifting the bank and telephone secrecy of himself and his relatives, provided Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) complies with what is in the request filed with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), according to campaign coordinator Camilo Santana. “All the conditions he set, the president’s answer is that he does not oppose absolutely anything he is proposing,” Santana said. Among the PL’s demands are the lifting of the telephone secrecy of former chief of staff Marco Aurélio Santana Ribeiro, known as Marcola, and the release of information on the presidency’s corporate card, according to Carta Capital.

Quaest will release on Saturday, October 24, the eve of the runoff, its final voting-intention poll on the Lula (PT) versus Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) race, with 3,702 in-person interviews conducted on Friday and Saturday and a two-point margin of error, according to Carta Capital. The institute’s most recent poll, published on Wednesday, October 21, showed a technical tie, with 45% for Flávio and 44% for Lula; blank and null votes add up to 9%, and 2% of respondents said they were undecided, according to the same outlet.

A group of United Nations (UN) experts warned on Wednesday, October 21, about the possible impact of measures taken by Meta on Brazil’s elections, in a statement issued that day, according to Opera Mundi. The document describes the questionable performance of the company’s artificial intelligence tools, the blocking of boosted posts on Lula-linked Instagram profiles and differences in channel recommendations on WhatsApp, and raises doubts about equal conditions during the campaign.

Flávio Bolsonaro’s team filed its own petition accusing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of “abuse of power” in the mass dissemination of government postings on WhatsApp during the campaign, according to the Hindustan Times, which cites AFP. On the same day, Lula’s campaign said it would request the disqualification of its rival on Wednesday over alleged election interference by Meta. Flávio took 47 percent of the vote in the first round against the incumbent’s 45 percent, and polls show a technical tie ahead of Sunday’s runoff.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's campaign team will request the disqualification of rival Flavio Bolsonaro on Tuesday over alleged election interference by tech giant Meta, a source told AFP in a text republished by France 24. The court on Monday gave Meta 24 hours to prove it was complying with an order to treat both campaigns equally, threatening a daily fine of around $200,000 if it did not. Meta has denied taking any actions to favour one side in the election, but previously said that some of Lula's campaign ads had been mistakenly deactivated due to technical errors.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has 48% of voting intentions and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 45%, a technical tie in the runoff, according to a Real Time Big Data poll released on Tuesday, five days before the vote, with a margin of error of two percentage points, according to Brasil de Fato. Lula called Flávio Bolsonaro a militiaman and challenged him to release his banking and phone records, according to Opera Mundi.

Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) gave Meta 24 hours to prove it is treating President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his right-wing opponent Flávio Bolsonaro equally, according to Le Monde. The Monday ruling said Meta had failed to demonstrate compliance with the order and increased the penalty to $200,000 per day, according to a court document seen by AFP.

The foreign ministers of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, and of Brazil, Mauro Vieira, discussed regional issues and the latest international developments by phone, according to Mehr News.

Undecided voters who watched the Band presidential debate on Sunday (18) reported discomfort with Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s posture in the face-to-face with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to Opera Mundi. The strongest engagement among participants came when Lula proposed that both open their bank and phone records, including those of their relatives, before the runoff.

Argentina’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 2.3% in the first quarter of 2026 and 2% in the second from a year earlier, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) — a picture that entered the first debate of Brazil’s runoff, when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) asked Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) whether he intended to reproduce Javier Milei’s economic policy in Brazil, according to G1.

Red-clad supporters of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rallied in Brasília while supporters of Flávio Bolsonaro — wearing yellow and green — filled streets in São Paulo on Sunday, according to Reuters, ahead of next week’s runoff election.

The first runoff debate between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, running for re-election, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) began on Sunday night (18) on TV Bandeirantes in São Paulo. AFP noted the two would go head-to-head on Sunday, a week before the runoff. In the first round, according to Brasil de Fato, Flávio Bolsonaro took 47.03% of valid votes against 45.16% for Lula; the runoff is set for October 25.

Meta denied favoring presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro after a court ordered the company to treat him and incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva equally ahead of their October 25 runoff, according to TRT World. The dispute follows allegations that Instagram restrictions hampered Lula’s campaign, and the president’s camp accuses Meta of electoral “ingérence” in favor of his far-right opponent Flavio Bolsonaro, according to Le Monde.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell to its lowest level since records began in 1988, according to official figures reported by Al Jazeera days before a presidential run-off. In the Cerrado, deforestation fell by about 24 percent, to 5,517 sq km, the lowest since 2001, according to the same report. Satellite data show that in the year up to July 2026, the rate fell by 41.8% in the Amazon, the biggest drop since records began, according to the BBC.

Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) approved on Friday (16 October) new rules to identify WhatsApp channels linked to electoral campaigns, amid the legal dispute over the Exército do Lula channel, which has more than four million followers, and complaints of possible political favoritism on Meta’s platforms. Unanimously, the resolution sets out six criteria for establishing a link, requires channels that meet them to be registered with the Electoral Justice and makes campaigns and administrators responsible for the legality of their posts.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Thursday (15), in an interview with TV Globo, that the First Command of the Capital (PCC) and the Red Command (CV) terrorize Brazilian communities, but rejected framing the gangs as terrorist organizations in the terms backed by the US government, according to Brasil 247. Lula said he handed US President Donald Trump a written proposal for cooperation against organized crime and drug trafficking based on the experience of the Federal Police.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign (PT) delivered to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday (October 14) a complaint about Meta’s conduct against his re-election campaign, according to Opera Mundi. The complaint includes a new fact that came to light on Tuesday (October 13), when left-wing influencers noticed that WhatsApp’s artificial intelligence refused to produce material about Lula but allowed the same material to be produced in favor of his opponent, senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL). Meta acknowledged technical failures involving Lula’s campaign posts and ads but denied electoral interference in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro’s candidacy.

Lula's campaign accused Meta of restricting content distribution, including by preventing the promotion of Instagram feed posts and with an interruption in view counts, according to France24, which cites Agence France-Presse (AFP). The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) gave Meta 48 hours to clarify whether it reduced the reach of posts and to explain the reported irregularities, while Meta's Brazil office denied the charges, calling them “simply false”. Lula faces the October 25 runoff against Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazilian journalist Rogério Tomaz Jr., known for his criticism of the government of Argentine President Javier Milei, was barred from entering Argentina on Monday upon landing at Aeroparque airport in Buenos Aires, according to Agência Brasil. Migration authorities cancelled his permanent residence and imposed a five-year re-entry ban.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva led a massive rally on Sunday on Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo, calling for more days off for workers ahead of a runoff against Flavio Bolsonaro, according to AFP, in a text republished by The Hindu. Polls show Flavio, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, is favoured to win the October 25 runoff.

Brazilians took to the streets of several cities in support of Lula, under the rallying cry “to block fascism”, according to Opera Mundi.

The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Justice Kassio Nunes Marques, ordered on Sunday the suspension of the “Exército do Lula” channel on WhatsApp, which has around 3.3 million followers. The decision granted a request from the campaign of presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. On Saturday, the justice had suspended ads by Lula’s coalition that linked Flávio Bolsonaro and his running mate, Alfredo Gaspar, to scandals.

The campaign of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Meta of election interference on October 11, 2026, after his social media content was allegedly blocked. Before the first round won by Flavio Bolsonaro, the profiles of Lula and other leftist leaders disappeared from Instagram’s search function, according to France24. Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) gave Meta 48 hours to clarify whether it reduced the reach of Lula campaign posts, according to The Hindu. Meta denied the charges, calling them “simply false” and not supported by the facts, according to France24.

Lula's special advisor for international affairs, Celso Amorim, said that the “Shield of the Americas” launched by President Donald Trump seeks to impose a “siege” and “absolute domination” on Brazil under the “false” argument of fighting organized crime, according to G1. The coalition brings together presidents of Latin American countries most aligned with Trump, such as Javier Milei, of Argentina, Abelardo de la Espriella, of Colombia, and Nayib Bukele, of El Salvador, according to G1. Aides close to Lula say the measure was “very serious” and represents a “gateway” to military actions in the region, as happened in Venezuela and Colombia, according to G1.

Just over two weeks before the runoff, the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on October 9 fuel tax cuts and expanded subsidies aimed at lowering fuel prices. A new decree eliminates federal taxes on the import and sale of gasoline for 30 days, with the possibility of an extension. The government will also provide an additional subsidy of 1.40 reais per liter to diesel importators for 30 days, on top of the 2.12 reais per liter subsidy already in effect.

Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro stepped up their campaigns on Wednesday, with Lula urging supporters to take to the streets, according to Anadolu. In the first round, Flávio finished ahead of Lula, with 47.03 percent to 45.16 percent, according to Foreign Policy.

Brazil’s public prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit against the Brazilian subsidiary of oil company Shell, blaming it for the torrential rains that hit southern Brazil in 2024, according to Le Monde. The accusation attributes to Shell 2% of historical global greenhouse gas emissions linked to the exploration, production and marketing of fossil fuels, according to Le Monde. The prosecutor’s office is seeking 270 million reais for environmental and climate moral damages, plus the same amount for material damages, according to Le Monde.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, of the Liberal Party (PL), and invited him to visit the country, Netanyahu’s office said on Friday. In the statement, the office said that “the two intend to renew the deep friendship between the two countries… as part of the ongoing transformation in Israel’s relations with South American countries.” According to the Times of Israel, the office confirmed the call took place the night before.

Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro gained on Thursday the support of Augusto Cury, the third-place candidate in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, according to France 24.

A website selling cryptocurrency is distributing tokens — digital assets exchangeable for money — to users who share messages favorable to candidate Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) in the runoff, a scheme denounced by Lulaʼs coalition to the Electoral Prosecution Office with a case before the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) over suspected abuse of economic power, while Flávioʼs campaign says it does not know who runs the site and denies hiring profiles, according to Opera Mundi.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has 52% of valid votes in the runoff, against 48% for Lula, in the first Datafolha poll of the second round, according to Opera Mundi. The four-point difference is within the poll's margin of error of two points, more or less. Flávio said he would work with the United States and China if elected president, according to the South China Morning Post.

Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered on Thursday (08/10) the issuance of an arrest warrant against former federal lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is in the United States (US), according to Opera Mundi. The measure was ordered after the justice enforced Eduardo’s sentence of four years and two months in prison for coercion in the course of the proceedings. The sentence is to be served in a semi-open regime, according to Revista Oeste.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), a candidate for Brazil’s presidency, said he intends to join the Shield of the Americas in a future government. The initiative, articulated by Donald Trump’s government, brings together Latin American countries in a security cooperation front. In a letter sent on Tuesday, 12 US Democratic lawmakers accused Donald Trump’s government of trying to influence Brazil’s election. In the document, the lawmakers cite the revocation of the Brazilian ambassador’s visa and plans to send 2 authorities to question the Brazilian system.

Flávio Bolsonaro won 47% of the vote in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election and heads to an October 25 runoff ahead of incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who got 44.2%, according to The Guardian. Lula’s administration reduced deforestation in the Amazon by almost 50%, but the success secured little electoral traction for pro-forest candidates in the same vote.

Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said Brazil will not leave BRICS after the elections, because the association benefits all its members and its leadership should understand this, according to TASS.

Flávio Bolsonaro took about 47 percent of the vote in the first round to Lula’s 45 percent, a reversal that surprised analysts, according to Al Jazeera. With over 98 percent counted, he led with over 47 percent while Lula had 44 percent, according to NPR. Lula vowed a fight in the runoff but with few cards to play, according to AFP.

No one who finished second in the first round of a presidential election has gone on to win the runoff since Brazil restored democracy in 1985, El País notes. Lula, who on Sunday secured 45% of the vote compared to Flávio Bolsonaro's 47%, is devising a strategy to attract centrist voters and mobilize the masses of abstainers.

Flávio Bolsonaro finished the first round ahead of Lula with 56,104,503 votes (47.03%), against 53,879,538 (45.16%), a difference of nearly 2.225 million votes, according to TASS. With neither candidate reaching 50%, the election goes to a second round on October 25, The Hindu reported.

US President Donald Trump said the runoff in Brazil’s elections should be very tight, speaking at the White House before a trip to Nebraska, according to G1. Trump praised the count on the same day, citing that 125 million people voted and that results came out shortly after polls closed, and used the case to attack vote counting in the United States.

Flávio Bolsonaro won 47.1% of valid votes against 45% for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round, with 98% of ballots counted, according to El País in English. The pair will clash again in an October 25 runoff, according to France24 in English. Michelle Bolsonaro secured more votes than any other candidate in the Senate race in the Federal District, according to France24 in English.

Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, congratulated Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on his first-round performance in Brazil’s presidential election and said he hopes to work with him if elected, backing closer ties between Brazil and Argentina, calling the result a historic election.

The vote count in Brazil's presidential election pushed the race to a runoff, with Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Lula. With nearly 91% of the ballots processed, Flávio Bolsonaro had 48% of the vote and Lula just over 44%, according to the electoral court. According to TASS, Flávio Bolsonaro led with 49.58% of the vote in the first round and no longer had an absolute majority. Projections pointed to a runoff as Bolsonaro's lead narrowed, according to The Hindu.

Polls closed in Brazil on Sunday, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeking a fourth non-consecutive term and Flávio Bolsonaro running for the Bolsonarist camp, according to Deutsche Welle. With 10% of the ballots processed, Flávio Bolsonaro had 51% of the vote and Lula 40.8%, according to the electoral court, as reported by Deutsche Welle. A victory for Bolsonaro would extend a wave of wins across Latin America by right-wing candidates aligned with US President Donald Trump, while Lula’s re-election would create problems for Washington, according to the BBC.

Almost 159 million Brazilians are eligible to vote in this Sunday's presidential election, according to the Associated Press, in a text republished by KXL. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voted after 9 a.m. in a school in Sao Bernardo do Campo, outside Sao Paulo. Candidate Flávio Bolsonaro voted in Rio de Janeiro, his home state.

Brazil holds on Sunday the first round of its presidential election, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seeking a fourth term, facing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, as polls point to a likely runoff, according to DW. The first round of the general elections decides the president, governors, the Chamber of Deputies, one third of the Senate and regional assemblies, according to the Mehr News Agency. If no candidate for executive office wins an absolute majority, the runoff will be held on October 25, according to the same agency.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his rival Flávio Bolsonaro wrapped up their campaigns on Saturday ahead of Sunday’s election, marred by scandals and mudslinging. Opinion polls show neither is likely to win the first round and the two are in a statistical tie for an October 25 runoff, according to France 24, with AFP.

Australia’s ambassador to Brazil, Sophie Davies, said the Australian embassy would also close on Friday, citing the US alert, and advised Australians to avoid US diplomatic facilities. The US embassy said in a statement on Thursday that it would suspend consular services starting on Friday and advised American citizens seeking assistance not to visit its embassy, consulates or other diplomatic facilities. Police said the operation followed cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies and that investigators had found no evidence corroborating the initially reported threat, nor identified any suspects linked to criminal organizations.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he is the one standing in the way of the return of fascists to power: “If it weren’t for me standing up to these fascists they’d easily win another election. I’m the one standing in their way.” Polls on the eve of Sunday’s election put Lula at about 45% of the vote and Flávio Bolsonaro at 40%, according to Datafolha.

The Brazilian government is investigating the “possible threat” cited by the United States as the reason to suspend service at the US embassy in Brasília, according to G1. According to government interlocutors, the United States informed Brazil about the indications of a threat, and Brazilian authorities were already investigating the case before the disclosure of the statement about the closure.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro snubbed a chance at a final debate ahead of the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera. TV Globo said in a statement that the debate was cancelled because two rulings, one from the country’s electoral court and the other from the Supreme Court, had created legal uncertainty about the event, also according to the broadcaster. A suspect who tried to jump the court’s fences and threw a backpack on top of a bus stop was arrested, according to the court, cited by Al Jazeera.

The United States suspended in-person services at its embassy and consulates in Brazil on Friday (2) for security reasons, according to G1. In a statement, the embassy advised US citizens who need emergency assistance not to come to its diplomatic facilities.

Brazil’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, called on law enforcement to investigate alleged efforts by the United States to fund far-right causes in Brazil, according to Al Jazeera. The request came one day after the British newspaper The Guardian published a story suggesting that Donald Trump’s administration planned to award $1m to right-wing civil groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court. Messias said foreign meddling “cannot be tolerated” and that the report was “an important alert for Brazilian sovereignty”.

Brazil and the United States agreed to form a working group to discuss US tariffs on Brazilian goods and other bilateral trade issues, Brazil's Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services said. The agreement followed talks between Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira and Development, Industry, Trade and Services Minister Marcio Elias Rosa with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Milwaukee, on the sidelines of a meeting of trade ministers from the Group of 20. Washington announced a 25% Section 301 tariff on certain Brazilian goods on July 15, followed by a measure on July 23 that imposed an additional 12.5% tariff on certain Brazilian imports.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign aired a spot accusing Donald Trump of seeking to colonise Brazil and capture its natural resources by backing Flávio Bolsonaro, according to The Guardian. The US Department of State denied interference in the Brazilian election. The first round is set for October 4, with Lula and Bolsonaro neck and neck in the polls.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s campaign asked the country’s Federal Supreme Court (STF) to investigate possible US interference in the national electoral process, in an unprecedented move made last Wednesday (September 23, 2026), according to The Hindu. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the president said that Brazil does not fit in anyone’s backyard, a message aimed at US pressure. Brazilians vote on October 4, and Lula leads Flávio by five points in first-round polls.

The Organization of American States (OAS) announced a foreign delegation made up of representatives from at least three countries that will observe the vote on Sunday (4) in Brazil, when voters go to the polls for president, governor, senator and deputies. According to the OAS, the delegation includes, among others, José Miguel Insulza, former foreign minister of Chile, and Eladio Loizaga, former foreign minister of Paraguay, according to G1.

Lula widened his first-round lead, with 42% of the votes against 37% for the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, according to a BTG/Nexus poll cited by Reuters. In a potential runoff, Lula would receive 46% against 44% for Bolsonaro — a tie within the margin of error. The previous survey by the same institute had Lula at 40% and Bolsonaro at 37% in the first round.

Rival political rallies filled Brazil’s streets with one week to go until election day, according to Al Jazeera. Brazilians head to the polls on October 4, 2026 to choose between current president Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called at the UN General Assembly for broader representation for Asia, Africa and Latin America and backed the candidatures of Brazil and India for a permanent seat on the Security Council, according to The Hindu. Lavrov said Russia cannot envisage or allow any new “Western seats,” because the West is already overrepresented, and that the interests of the African continent must be satisfied, according to TASS. He spoke at the General Assembly session in New York on Saturday night, according to the Indian Express.

Lula signed the decision that ends the operation, offering, intermediation and advertising of betting, according to The Guardian. The provisional executive order comes into force immediately, needs congressional approval within 120 days to remain in effect, prohibits new deposits into accounts and gives users until October 5 to withdraw their funds. Lula said he had taken a hard, drastic and necessary measure and compared the sector to a cancer.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential campaign has accused Donald Trump, in a television advert broadcast on Thursday, 24 September 2026, of wanting to “colonise” Brazil in order to capture its natural resources by meddling in October’s presidential election, according to The Guardian; in the one-minute video, a female narrator says that Flávio Bolsonaro is “Trump’s candidate” and that what Trump wants is to “colonise Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust”; the US State Department has denied meddling and said, in an August statement cited by the paper, that “any insinuation of a ‘ploy’ to undermine a democratic nation’s election is a baseless lie”.

According to the UN’s official record of the debate and Middle East Eye, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the general debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) saying that “generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma left by the genocide of women and children perpetrated by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Gaza.” In the same speech, on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, Lula said that “Israeli civilians paid the price for the radicalism and intolerance of Hamas’ terrorist acts” and that illegal settlements in the West Bank are making a two-state solution increasingly unviable, according to The New Republic. He criticised the persecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its members and said that the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, must not be “silenced for telling the truth,” according to Al Jazeera, The New Republic and Israel Hayom.

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, in his opening address to the general debate of the 81st United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York that “Brazilian democracy belongs to Brazilians” and that Brazil “does not belong in anyone’s backyard”, in a reference to US pressure over the October 4, 2026 election, in which he is seeking a fourth non-consecutive term, according to Al Jazeera and G1. Lula said Latin America is seeing a resurgence of “hegemonic ambitions” and foreign interference in elections, and said the UN is failing to prevent wars, with credibility “never so low”, blaming the Security Council and the veto power of its members. “We do not need aircraft carriers watching our waters. We need cooperation to stop the flow of weapons and money that fuels crime,” he said. The speech came the same day Donald Trump used the rostrum to say Washington would use its “unmatched military might” if necessary to protect US interests in the Western Hemisphere, according to excerpts released by the White House.

Interpol elected Brazilian Valdecy Urquiza as its secretary-general on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, with 118 votes, according to the Russian state agency TASS, which cited a briefing by Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev in Beijing. Urquiza had been the international cooperation director of Brazil’s Federal Police. Source: Interpol.