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  • Lula re-elected, Flávio on the run

    October 30, 2026 · 42 min

    Flávio Bolsonaro refused to accept his defeat in Brazil’s presidential runoff and left the country within 24 hours of a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports. He landed in Miami with a humanitarian stay permit, raising questions…

  • A coin-flip runoff

    October 20, 2026 · 37 min

    Brazil votes on Sunday, and the presidential runoff is now too close to call. A week and a half ago, Flávio Bolsonaro was the clear favorite. Since then, street mobilization and an unprecedented grassroots campaign have helped Lula close…

  • Taking stock of an electoral shock

    October 8, 2026 · 45 min

    Lula finished Brazil's first round almost 2 points behind Flávio Bolsonaro, his weakest first-round result since 1998. Gustavo Ribeiro and historian James Green (Brown University) look at what went wrong for the president and what the…

  • Brazil's economy is growing. So why isn't Lula polling better?

    October 1, 2026 · 40 min

    Brazilians vote on Sunday, October 4, and President Lula is asking for a fourth term on the strength of his economic record. Growth averaged 3% a year, unemployment is at a record low, and real wages are rising. His approval still sits…

  • Flávio Bolsonaro upsets the gods

    September 30, 2026 · 28 min

    Brazil votes on Sunday, and the final week of the campaign has turned on religion. A rumor that a Flávio Bolsonaro government would strip Our Lady of Aparecida of her title as Brazil's patron saint has spread through Catholic circles. The…

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  • How to read Brazil's election polls

    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro are statistically tied less than two weeks before Brazil's first round, and a flood of contradictory polls is feeding claims that pollsters are rigging the race. Rafael Nishimura, director of sampling operations…

  • Can Brazil's Supreme Court survive an election?

    September 17, 2026 · 41 min

    For years, Brazil's Supreme Court picked fights with Congress and the presidency. This month it turned on itself. On September 15, the full court sat for more than seven hours to answer a question it has dodged for 130 years, and walked…

  • Civil war at the Brazilian Supreme Court

    September 9, 2026 · 36 min

    Brazil's Supreme Court is facing what may be the worst crisis in its history. Justice André Mendonça unsealed the Banco Master investigation, exposing messages between the bank's former CEO and Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Now two factions…

  • The first surprise of the 2026 election

    September 1, 2026 · 38 min

    Two polls released Monday shook the political establishment. Augusto Cury, of the small Avante party, took third place in both: 11% in Nexus's survey, 7.8% in Atlas Intel's. The numbers force rivals and analysts to take Cury seriously for…

  • What's wrong with the Brazilian Congress

    August 20, 2026 · 44 min

    Brazil's 2026 campaign is officially underway, and almost all the attention will be on the presidential race. That's a problem, because power in Brazil is increasingly won and lost in Congress — where the budget is controlled and where any…

  • A visa, a snub, and a reopened wound

    August 10, 2026 · 35 min

    The US State Department revoked the visa of Brazil's ambassador to Washington ( https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/us-brazil-ambassador-viotti-argentina-russia-putin ) and said the quiet part out loud: it is retaliation for Brasília…

  • Brazilian trade: Life after Washington

    August 4, 2026 · 27 min

    The US now takes less than 10% of Brazil's exports — the smallest share in decades — and Washington's tariff wall is accelerating a realignment that was already underway. Gustavo Ribeiro speaks with trade consultant Welber Barral, a former…

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