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Neymar accused of Jair Bolsonaro "agreement" after endorsing Brazil's far-right president

Brazil's presidential hopeful Lula da Silva has accused Neymar of having an "agreement" in place with the nation's far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro over his tax affairs

Daily Mirror · Oct 19, 2022

Lula's lead over Bolsonaro narrows in Brazil vote -poll

Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's lead over President Jair Bolsonaro has shrunk to 5 percentage points ahead of a runoff vote set for Oct. 30, a poll by Genial/Quaest showed on Wednesday.

Reuters · Oct 19, 2022

Analysis-Brazil's Bolsonaro caught off guard by campaign's ugly closing chapter

Brazil's unexpectedly close presidential race has taken an ugly turn in the final weeks ahead of an Oct. 30 runoff vote, even by the bruising standards of the past year, with insinuations of cannibalism, pedophilia and devil worship.

Reuters · Oct 18, 2022

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When do movements become cults?

We talked to experts about partisanship and fanaticism and why some politicians inspire cult-like devotion

Salon · Oct 18, 2022

Bolsonaro victory would risk independence of Brazil’s Supreme Court

President Jair Bolsonaro is prompting fears for Brazil’s democratic system by threatening to appoint new judges to the Supreme Court, the central institution to the country’s young democracy. Between the two presidential rounds, Bolsonaro is blowing hot and cold on the issue – making threats to galvanise his base, then…

France 24 · Oct 18, 2022

Brazil’s fearsome militias: mafia boom increases threat to democracy

Rio’s heavily armed paramilitary groups have exploded in influence in recent years to wield power over dozens of communities

The Guardian - US · Oct 18, 2022

Lula's lead over Bolsonaro falls marginally ahead of Brazil's runoff election -poll

Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva saw his lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro slightly drop ahead of the Oct. 30 runoff vote, according to a survey by pollster IPEC published on Monday.

Reuters · Oct 17, 2022

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Man killed as gunfire interrupts Bolsonaro ally's Sao Paulo campaign

A man was killed near a campaign event in Sao Paulo for a close ally of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday, authorities said, after the sound of gunfire interrupted the event.

Reuters · Oct 17, 2022

Shooting disrupts Bolsonaro-backed candidate’s campaign stop

A Sao Paulo gubernatorial candidate’s campaign event in the Paraisopolis neighborhood came to an abrupt halt on Monday when gunfire erupted outside

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Lula brands Bolsonaro ‘tiny little dictator’ in Brazil TV debate

Leftist challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva calls incumbent Jair Bolsonaro a ‘shameless liar’ who ‘fooled around’ with Covid causing huge fatalities

The Guardian - AU · Oct 17, 2022

Lula, Bolsonaro face off in tense debate before Brazil runoff

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro exchanged insults and corruption allegations during a tense televised debate as they sought to sway voters ahead of a runoff election on Oct. 30.

Tribune News Service · Oct 17, 2022

Brazil's Bolsonaro and Lula spar in first debate of runoff campaign

Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attacked each others' records in office on Sunday in the first debate of the second round of Brazil's election.

Reuters · Oct 17, 2022

Brazil's da Silva, Bolsonaro clash in 1st one-on-one debate

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro have clashed in their first one-on-one debate, two weeks before the presidential election’s runoff

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Lula leading Bolsonaro in second round of Brazil election, poll shows

Brazilian leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is leading right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, with 49% of voter support against the incumbent's 44% ahead of an Oct. 30 runoff vote, according to a poll by Datafolha published on Friday.

Reuters · Oct 14, 2022

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The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2022

Brazil polls facing Bolsonaro backlash after election miss

Brazilian polling companies have been facing threats of a crackdown after their surveys for the presidential election’s first round significantly understated the vote for the president and his allies

Reuters · Oct 13, 2022

Lula lead narrows to less than 5 points in Brazil election - AtlasIntel survey

Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's polling lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has narrowed to less than 5 percentage points, according to a new opinion survey published on Thursday by pollster AtlasIntel.

Reuters · Oct 13, 2022

Brazil's Bolsonaro trails former President Lula ahead of runoff vote-poll

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is still lagging behind rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of the runoff vote set for the end of the month, according to a poll by Genial/Quaest published on Thursday.

Reuters · Oct 13, 2022

Cloudy skies for Brazil sugar and ethanol as country heads back to polls

Brazilian sugar and ethanol makers will likely face a less favorable business environment regardless of who emerges victorious from the hotly-contested Brazilian presidential election on Oct. 30, analysts and experts say.

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The Conversation · Oct 13, 2022

Brazil’s gun ownership boom and why it’s making a lot of people nervous – podcast

Soon after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in 2018, he began making it a lot easier for people in the country to buy guns. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to two experts about Brazil’s boom in private gun ownership and why it’s exacerbating…

The Guardian - AU · Oct 13, 2022

Former New Zealand PM John Key says he would have voted for Trump and Bolsonaro

Influential National party figure said he had never voted ‘anything other than right’, but that some on the right were ‘getting pretty crazy’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 13, 2022

‘Lula represents hope’: Brazil presidential frontrunner takes his message into Rio’s favelas

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promises to give far-right rival Jair Bolsonaro a ‘thrashing’ in tighter-than-expected presidential race

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2022

Lula, Bolsonaro seek to firm up support ahead of Brazil vote

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro were campaigning ahead of this month's election, seeking to consolidate support among their base

WEKU · Oct 12, 2022

How this Brazilian doc got nearly every person in her city to take a COVID vaccine

Dr. Gabriela Kucharski's city of Toledo had virtually no vaccines. And it's a bastion of support for Brazil's vaccine skeptic president. Here's why that didn't matter.

The Conversation · Oct 11, 2022

Federal Labor's honeymoon continues in Resolve poll; can the Liberals regain office without those 'lefties'?

A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted October 5-9 from a sample of 1,604, gave Labor 39% of the primary vote (steady since September), the Coalition 30% (down two), the Greens 12% (up two), One Nation 5% (down one), the UAP 3% (up one), independents 9% (up one) and…

Reuters · Oct 11, 2022

Brazil's slippage in corruption index clouds OECD membership, report says

Brazil slipped in its global corruption positioning due to government interference in the work of law enforcement agencies that has caused serious consequences for anti-graft efforts, Transparency International (TI) said on Tuesday.

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