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Brazil president makes Argentina a campaign boogeyman

As a Brazilian living in Argentina, Luciana Taddeo says she spends ever-more effort rebutting ever-crazier rumors

The Independent UK

Brazil election goes to the wire after ill-tempered final TV debate

Veteran leftist Lula da Silva holds slender poll lead over Jair Bolsonaro as national divide grows before Sunday vote

The Guardian - UK

Brazil's Bolsonaro and Lula spar in bruising final debate before vote

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faced off in a final debate before their runoff election Sunday, focusing mainly on economic hardships.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro, Lula face off in last debate before vote

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro faced off on Friday in the last debate before Brazil’s elections on Sunday

The Independent UK

This Amazon road led to vast deforestation. Brazil's Bolsonaro plans to pave it

President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection Sunday, has pledged to fully pave BR-319 and turn it into a kind of jungle expressway, raising alarm from environmental groups.

WEKU

How Team Biden Tried to Coup-Proof Brazil’s Elections

Sunday’s election in Brazil will be a test for more than Jair Bolsonaro’s integrity.

Foreign Policy

Bolsonaro locking up farm votes, with boost from ex-minister

President Jair Bolsonaro's former agriculture minister has become the face of his campaign in Brazil's agribusiness heartland — a part of the country where the conservative incumbent appears to be leading his leftist rival, ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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Brazil's Bolsonaro seeks to win over voters in pro-Lula northeast

In the run-up to this Sunday's presidential run-off in Brazil, both candidates are fighting for votes in the northeast of the country. The vast, poor and arid region is of strategic importance, as it has historically been a breeding ground for the left. The northeast is the only region where…

France 24

What to know about Brazil's election as Bolsonaro faces Lula, with major world impacts

Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to vote in a presidential election that is testing the world's fourth-largest democracy and could have a critical impact on the fight against climate change.

WEKU

Brazil’s education system in crisis as Bolsonaro takes aim at universities

Over the last four years, President Jair Bolsonaro’s government has made steep budget cuts to Brazil’s public universities. In the run-up to the second and final round of presidential elections, his government announced a new freeze on funds, angering students anew. The fields of education, culture and environmental studies have…

France 24

Labor retains large lead in Victorian Resolve poll four weeks from election; also leads in NSW

The Victorian state election will be held in four weeks, on November 26. A Resolve poll for The Age, conducted October 20-24 from a sample of “more than 800”, gave Labor a 59-41 lead over the Coalition.

The Conversation

The Guardian view on Brazil’s election: Bolsonaro’s return would cost us all

Editorial: The planet cannot afford a second term for the far-right president who has resurged in the polls

The Guardian - UK

Fears Bolsonaro may not accept defeat as son cries fraud before Brazil election

Claim of ‘greatest electoral fraud ever seen’ raises concern that far-right president is echoing Donald Trump’s playbook

The Guardian - US

First Thing: Climate crisis funds ‘not delivered’ to countries in grave need

With famine in Somalia almost inevitable, $100bn a year pledge criticised. Plus, China is locking down parts of Wuhan again

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Bolsonaro’s campaign relies on ‘secret budget’ payoffs to win Brazil’s election

The government slush fund, which amounts to about one-fifth of the entire discretionary spending budget, has little or no oversight

The Independent UK

On Sunday, Brazil's bitter presidential race comes to an end

On Sunday, Brazilians are choosing between two futures

The Guardian - US

‘It will be extremely close’: bellwether state holds key to Brazil election

Lula, the leftwing favourite, and Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right incumbent, are campaigning hard in Minas Gerais, which has a long record of picking the president

Financial Times

How Bolsonaro built a rightwing movement bigger than his presidency

The Brazilian leader’s coalition of supporters will continue to shape the country’s politics whether he wins or loses this weekend’s election

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The Independent UK

Brazil election: What to know about the high-stakes race

Brazil is days from an historic presidential election featuring two political titans and bitter rivals that could usher in another four years of far-right politics or return a leftist to the nation’s top job

WEKU

Why false claims about Brazil's election are spreading in far-right U.S. circles

American election deniers are recycling lies about voting machines to claim Brazil's presidential election is being rigged and to cast doubt on the U.S. midterms.

Reuters

Mayor of Brazil meatpacking hub probed amid wave of electoral coercion cases

A Brazilian labor prosecutor on Friday told the mayor of a major agribusiness town to stop directing companies "to suggest, influence or induce" workers to vote for specific candidates, after he called on business leaders to drum up votes for right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

The Guardian - US

‘A clash of two Brazils’: presidential election divides voters – even gangsters

Criminals’ conflicting opinions reflect a broader fissure in Brazil as it approaches its most discordant runoff in decades

The Independent UK

Bolsonaro struggles to sway Brazil’s poor voters with aid

After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro boosted welfare payments in August by 50%, many people in the Jequitinhonha Valley, one of the poorest regions of the country, felt they could once again buy some beef, keep electricity running and repair leaky roofs

The Guardian - US

YouTube and Facebook letting Brazil election disinformation spread, NGO says

Global Witness produced – and withdrew – purposely misleading ads that were all approved by YouTube, and half by Facebook

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula issues letter to evangelicals to allay concern

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has published an open letter to evangelicals aimed at countering claims he would persecute their faith

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