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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 1h
Brazilian markets declared a winner on Monday, three weeks before voters get the final say. São Paulo's benchmark stock index crossed 200,000 points for the first time, and the Brazilian real gained more than 4%. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/mark…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 3h
Over the past couple of years, commentators have reached for the Biden comparison. On age, it is unfair. Lula remains sharp and physically vigorous. On economics, it fits uncomfortably well. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 17h
Political scientist Beatriz Rey has warned that only Bolsonaro's movement grasped how much congressional races matter. The left and center might learn it the hard way.
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 21h
The Cepea benchmark for finished cattle hit an all-time nominal high in early October. Calves are pricier still, and that is where ranchers' trouble begins. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/beef…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 23h
Social media is not a level playing field in Brazil's election. On our election night broadcast, David Nemer explained why the left struggles to win hearts and minds online.
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A municipal-level analysis of electoral data shows Flávio improving on his father's 2022 first-round share in 5,460 of 5,567 municipalities, while Lula's share fell in 5,448. For more key takeaways on Sunday's election results, go to newsletters.brazilian.report
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Flávio Bolsonaro finished the first round with 47.03% of valid votes, ahead of Lula at 45.16%, and the two will meet in a runoff on Oct. 25. The right-wing wave arrived like a tsunami. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/2026…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Twenty years of PT runoff votes, mapped. Lula won everywhere in 2002. By 2006, the party's base had moved to the Northeast, and the South and Southeast never came back. In 2022, Lula won by reclaiming just enough of the Southeast. Brazil votes today. A runoff on October 25 is likely.
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brazilians vote today in what could be the tightest race in the country's young democracy. Follow the results live with The Brazilian Report. We go on air at 5 pm Brasília time. That's 4 pm Eastern, 9 pm in London, and 10 pm in Paris. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/elec…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brazil votes in the closest race in its democratic history. Pollsters cannot agree on who is ahead: Lula or Flávio Bolsonaro. Turnout and a possible far-right surge will decide what they couldn't. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/2026…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Baltimore Ravens beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-31 at the Maracanã before almost 73,000 fans and the largest audience on record for an NFL game played outside the US. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/nfl-…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A takeover between two Australian miners needs the blessing of a Brazilian council that has yet to be assembled. How it rules will define what mineral sovereignty means in practice. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/crit…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brazil's solicitor general asked the Federal Police and the Federal Prosecution Office on Thursday to investigate a USD 1 million US State Dep. grant for a program called "Countering Lawfare and Censorship in Brazil." newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brazil votes on Sunday with 58.6% of its electorate living in states where the presidential race is a statistical tie. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TV Globo canceled Brazil's final presidential debate on Thursday, less than an hour before airtime. No broadcast could have summed up the 2026 campaign better. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/glob…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on Sep. 30 upheld an order removing social media posts that link Flávio Bolsonaro to a plan to strip Our Lady of Aparecida of her title as Brazil's patron saint.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/braz…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cattle grazing Amazon pastures that mix grass with a nitrogen-fixing legume gained 23% more weight per hectare in a recent trial and released 23% less enteric methane per kilo of weight gained. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/more…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brazil recorded 354 episodes of political violence between Oct. 28, 2024, and Aug. 15, 2026 — one every 44 hours — in what is the most violent pre-electoral period in 10 years.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/braz…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Luciano Sobral, chief economist at Neo Investimentos, explains which sector should be the next government's top priority, regardless of who wins the election. newsletters.brazilian.report/podcas…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brazil's final presidential debate before the 1st round airs on Globo at 9:30 pm, and its two biggest storylines involve men who will not be on stage.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/glob…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reported talks to buy Monzo, a British digital bank, would give Nubank a shortcut into Europe — but at a price its own shareholders find hard to swallow. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/nuba…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brazil's unemployment rate fell to 5.3% in the three months through August, the lowest reading for that period since the statistics agency IBGE began its current series in 2012.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/reco…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Days before the election, millions of Brazilians remain undecided. They are disengaged voters forced to choose among candidates they find unappealing. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/unde…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ceitec survived one liquidation order and is halfway through a BRL 220 million upgrade. Its accounts give critics an easy line of attack. The open question is whether Ceitec should be judged on profit alone. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/ceit…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brazil's latest attempt to hand water and sewage services to a private operator ended without a single bid. Brazil had set a binding target of 90% sewage treatment by 2033, which seems like a long shot. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/braz…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Three Supreme Court justices have issued 3 contradictory rulings in 4 days over social media posts about Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil's patron saint. The full court is set to referee the dispute.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/supr…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five days before Brazil's 2026 first round, the campaign's liveliest debate concerns who should leave it. Some have urged the right to unite behind Flávio Bolsonaro and beat Lula outright on Oct 4.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/one-…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fears that a Flávio Bolsonaro government would strip Our Lady of Aparecida of her title as Brazil's patron saint have spread through Catholic circles. newsletters.brazilian.report/podcas…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Record-high harvest, lowest stocks in 25 years, and a 2027 crop already misbehaving. The math doesn't add up to a cheaper cup. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/coff…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brazil's government will meet football club executives on Tuesday to discuss the fallout from its ban on online betting, which President Lula signed on Friday, nine days before the first round of the presidential election. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/foot…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lula signed a provisional decree on Sep. 25 creating Desenrola 3.0, the third edition of his household debt-relief program, and this version puts the federal government directly into the market for defaulted debt. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For years, the Bolsonaros have built their communications strategy on disinformation, and the far right has mastered the art of stitching falsehoods onto real facts. Now a rumor has the family rattled. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/flav…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chatbots mostly get Brazil's election facts right but still cast doubt on its voting machines. The electoral court sees little reason to worry. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/chat…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brazil's national team played a friendly in Townsville, Australia. For one longtime Brazilian resident, the visit brought back language, community and pieces of home. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/braz…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Four decades after its first winter in Antarctica, Brazil has a voice on the continent's future, one station, no runway, and a research budget that swings wildly from year to year. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/anta…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In a Thursday notice, the Workers' Party (PT) and its coalition said Meta disabled President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's re-election campaign's ad account on Wednesday, 11 days before the October 4 first round.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
President Lula makes his final campaign pitch to Brazil's business elite on Friday evening at a dinner at a São Paulo hotel, with the first round of the 2026 election a little over a week away. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corruption scandals are swirling around Flávio Bolsonaro's campaign, but a religious controversy may hurt him more. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/flav…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new guide from the Brazilian Climatech Forum maps 141 potential funders and shows why capital so often misses the companies that need it. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/clim…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The EU and Brazil announced that they have begun assessing whether Pix, Brazil's instant payment system, can connect directly to TIPS, the Eurosystem's platform for settling instant payments in central bank money.  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/pix-…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lula's party asked the Supreme Court to investigate whether US pressure, money, and digital operations are tilting October's presidential election toward Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's far-right candidate. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Flávio Bolsonaro flew on Banco Master owner Daniel Vorcaro's jet, Piauí revealed. Today, a fuel-fraud probe targeted Antonio Carlos Freixo Jr., who helped channel Vorcaro's money into "Dark Horse." newsletters.brazilian.report/p/flav…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brazil's polls are all over the map and often disagree on the state of the presidential race. Raphael Nishimura explains how to make sense of them. Listen to the full episode of Explaining Brazil: newsletters.brazilian.report/podcas…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brazil's first wine yearbook shows a sector that extends far beyond its southern cradle, yet Brazilians still drink mostly from other countries' bottles. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/braz…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brazil's federal government has given its ministries new powers to block congressional budgetary grants that fail to meet policy criteria. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/gove…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Augusto Cury briefly looked like he could break the Lula-Bolsonaro duopoly, which has dominated the 2026 election. In late August, the newcomer jumped to 11% in some polls. He fell back just as quickly. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/inte…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lula opened the UN General Assembly with a speech that never mentioned Trump by name, yet left little doubt about its main addressee. "Brazil does not belong in anyone's backyard."  newsletters.brazilian.report/p/lula…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Companies say they don't trust each other enough to trade data. A startup with ties to Congress and two state IT firms is offering a fix. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/data…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Few insiders call it likely, but the Flávio Bolsonaro campaign believes the Liberal Party senator's recent climb in the polls puts it within reach. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/flav…
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The Brazilian Report @brazilianreport.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Messages suggest that a group called "the KN crew" received hundreds of millions of reais from Banco Master. Investigators say "KN" refers to Justice Kassio Nunes Marques. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/banc…
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