A WhatsApp channel went from fewer than 60,000 followers to 10.8 million in three weeks and helped Lula overturn a first-round deficit. Leftist parties abroad now want the recipe. It may travel badly.  newsletters.brazilian.report…

Lula's electoral comeback was built at the bottom of the income ladder. In the first round, Lula took 77.9% of valid votes in the poorest tenth of polling places and 36.5% in the richest, a near mirror image of Flávio's 19% and 53.4%. newsletters.brazilian.report…

Three weeks ago, Brazilian investors had already picked their president. Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round lead sent the Ibovespa stock index to new records, while the real briefly broke below BRL 5 per dollar. On Monday, the same money ran the other way. newsletters.brazilian.report…

Brazil’s Federal Police have asked Argentina to confirm whether Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has left the country. newsletters.brazilian.report…

Brazil is set to import more wheat than at any point in three decades. Imports could exceed 9 million tonnes in the 2026/27 season, as two months of rain wreck the harvest in all three of the country’s main producing states. newsletters.brazilian.report…

Lula won an unprecedented fourth term in Brazil. Turnout did much of the work. Abstention fell from 33.4 million in the first round to 30.5 million, and blank and spoiled ballots dropped from 5.9 million to 4.2 million, the lowest levels since 2002.  newsletters.brazilian.report…

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term on Sunday. If he completes it, he will have governed Brazil for 16 years, a tenure surpassed only by Emperor Pedro II and the dictator Getúlio Vargas. newsletters.brazilian.report…

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Flávio Bolsonaro finished the first round 2.2 million votes ahead of Lula. Can Lula close the gap today? History offers mixed signals. So the past can’t settle today's race. Follow the count with us tonight.  newsletters.brazilian.report… #Brazil #Lula #Bolsonaro #Elections

Brazilians choose their next president today in a race the final polls cannot separate. Surveys on the eve of the vote put neither candidate clearly outside the margin of error. newsletters.brazilian.report…

A thinner squad and a fraction of the budget took Estudiantes past Flamengo and into a Copa Libertadores final with Palmeiras. newsletters.brazilian.report…

Estudiantes de La Plata eliminated defending champion Flamengo from the Copa Libertadores on Thursday night. The upset spares Palmeiras a third final against the Rio club in six years and sends it instead toward an older grudge.  newsletters.brazilian.report…

The Army called off the Oct. 27 signing without explanation, a day after Avibras’s role in the deal was reported. Its new owners, the Batista brothers, had taken control 12 days earlier. newsletters.brazilian.report…

President Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet tonight on TV Globo for the last debate before Sunday's presidential runoff. It airs in prime time, straight after Brazil's most-watched newscast, and Globo has cleared its evening telenovela to make room.  newsletters.brazilian.report…

TSE head Kassio Nunes Marques could take down “Lula’s Army,” the top pro-Lula WhatsApp channel, by tomorrow. He gave Meta, Google, and X 24 hours to report on paid boosting or coordinated amplification. Janones and Lula’s camp have 24 hours to respond. newsletters.brazilian.report…