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surprise victory for a right-wing populist embroiled in scandal. Crushing defeat for a party deemed out of touch with its base. Supporters on the left grasping for answers.
The scene may feel familiar to Americans. This time, it unfolded in a Latin American nation thousands of miles away. And the results could profoundly reshape the region and its relations with Washington.
His surprisingly strong showing gives a significant boost to the ascendant right in Latin America, placing Brazil, the region’s most populous country, within reach as the biggest electoral prize following seven straight wins by right-wing candidates.
It also represents a remarkable comeback for the Bolsonaro family four years after Mr. Bolsonaro’s father tried to subvert democracy after losing the last election, was convicted of plotting a coup and sentenced to prison.
Flávio Bolsonaro himself overcame being embroiled in a corruption scandal to win more votes than the leftist incumbent, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. While neither clinched enough ballots to win in the first round of voting, Mr. Bolsonaro’s formidable performance appeared to foreshadow a win in a two-way contest on Oct. 25.
That is because the votes of some nine million Brazilians who backed various minor right-wing candidates on Sunday will now be up for grabs. The vast majority are likely to shift their support to Mr. Bolsonaro, giving him the upper hand. For Mr. Lula, finding more votes presents a far more challenging task.
The regional swing to the right is driven by an array of forces, experts say, including dissatisfaction with incumbent governments, deepening worries about security and crime and a shift toward more conservative values.
For months, polls had predicted a close race between the two men, with Mr. Lula leading by the slimmest of margins. The leftist president had framed his candidacy as the only way to halt the return of the Bolsonaro family to power, just four years after Jair Bolsonaro lost the last election and inspired his supporters to storm the capital, demanding that the result be overturned.
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A supporter of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reacted Sunday in Rio de Janeiro to the first results of the presidential election.Credit...Mauro Pimentel/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Mr. Lula had also sought to portray his candidacy as defending Brazil’s sovereignty against attempts by the Trump administration to intervene in the country’s domestic affairs.
Mr. Bolsonaro had struggled to shake off a corruption investigation and divided voters with his plans to seek amnesty for his father and the rioters. Then, on Sunday, he surprised many when he captured 47 percent of the vote, finishing two points ahead of his rival.
“Even Jair Bolsonaro may be surprised by this result,” said Jairo Nicolau, a prominent political scientist and professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a research institution.
A runoff win for Mr. Bolsonaro would represent a major triumph for President Trump, ejecting Mr. Lula, one of his most outspoken foes among world leaders, who has not shied away from challenging the American leader.
It would also usher in an enthusiastic ally willing to help Mr. Trump’s bold plans for dominance in the region.
A Surprise Favorite
It is not yet clear just what brought Mr. Bolsonaro to the brink of victory.
“It was conceivable that Flávio could come close to Lula or even overtake him,” said Mr. Nicolau. “But what happened in Brazil was a right-wing tidal wave,” he added. “We’re going to spend a long time trying to understand.”
What unfolded in Brazil may have echoed a broader challenge incumbents face across the region: convincing voters to give them more time to deliver on pledges.
“Basically, it’s never a good thing to be president in South America,” said Guilherme Casarões, professor of Brazilian studies at Florida International University in Miami. Governments on the left and the right have struggled to win second consecutive terms across the region.
Some analysts believed Mr. Bolsonaro had managed to rally at least a slice of conservative voters planning to vote for other right-wing contenders. Disillusionment with Mr. Lula’s party, which has been in power for the better part of two decades, also most likely fueled his challenger’s success. Many Brazilians are concerned over pervasive violence and crushing personal debt.
Supporters of Mr. Bolsonaro on Sunday night in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil.Credit...Silvio Avila/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The momentum of the Brazilian right was also on full display in the nation’s legislative races, where right-wing candidates, including four other members of the Bolsonaro family, made spectacular strides in both Congress and the Senate.
“A complete takeover of the far right,” said Mr. Casarões.
This means that, whoever ultimately wins the presidency, Latin America’s largest democracy is poised to keep marching to the right — a prospect that excited Carlos Augusto Marques, a 63-year-old writer casting a vote in Rio de Janeiro.
“To improve, we need four or five center-right governments, at least,” he said.
If Mr. Bolsonaro wins, his party’s gains could allow him to deliver some of his most polarizing promises: an amnesty for his father, pardons for participants of the Jan. 8 riots and a Senate more willing to try to remove justices who convicted his father.
A Pathway to Victory
Now, the presidential contest is headed for what is likely to be a bitterly contested final leg, with both candidates racing to capture millions of more votes. Yet the pathway to victory may prove far more daunting for Mr. Lula.
Analysts say he could still stage a comeback,particularly if he could win over some of the 33 million Brazilians who skipped Sunday’s vote.
In Brazil, voting is mandatory for most people between the ages of 18 and 70, though absentees only face a small fine. This year, the number of Brazilians who sat out the first round rose to a record high of 21 percent.
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A seller displaying a newspaper featuring front-page coverage of the election on Monday in Rio de Janeiro.Credit...Pilar Olivares/Reuters
Mr. Lula may also succeed in striking coalitions with other parties in hopes of convincing some moderate voters who reject Mr. Bolsonaro to shift their support to him.
Alberto Saab, 55, is among the 8 percent of voters on Sunday who supported a third-party candidate. The engineer has voted for both candidates in the past, but remains undecided so far for the runoff.
He has been impressed with leftist investment in education, yet he also supports the right’s bolder measures to combat security. “The world is very polarized,” he said. “If we don’t return to some sort of center of balance, I think we’ll remain in a difficult situation.”
Mr. Bolsonaro is being investigated for raising millions for a biopic about his jailed father from a disgraced banker at the center of a massive fraud. Details of the probe have dominated public debate, fueling expectations for more bombshell revelations closer to the final vote.
In recent weeks, Mr. Lula has seized the opportunity to dial up attacks on his rival’s record. His campaign aired an online minidoc exploring controversies in Mr. Bolsonaro’s political career and a video linking Mr. Bolsonaro’s alleged ties to militias. Some voters may not be swayed in either direction. Kailhany Machado, 23, voted for a third candidate and plans to cast a blank ballot in the runoff.
“Flávio is involved in several scandals and Lula? I don’t even need to tell you,” Ms. Machado said. “They’re corrupt, criminal, and don’t deserve our vote.”
Enter Trump?
Mr. Trump has been a wildcard in Brazil’s presidential race.
Ahead of the runoff, he could stay quiet, openly endorse Mr. Bolsonaro or ratchet up pressure with new measures aimed at Brazil.
Last year, Mr. Trump stepped in to help Mr. Bolsonaro’s father avoid a prison term. Nevertheless, the elder Mr. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison, though he is serving his term at home because of poor health.
Mr. Trump has not championed any presidential candidate, though his administration has appeared to lift Mr. Bolsonaro in more subtle ways ahead of the vote. This has alarmed Brazil, which has accused the United States of trying to sway its elections and has put up a firewall to try to shield its democracy from threats.
Flávio Bolsonaro has aligned himself with Mr. Trump and other right-wing leaders in the region, echoing plans to mount a hard-line attack on the drug gangs that have become a major concern for many ordinary Brazilians.
And, like Mr. Trump, Mr. Bolsonaro is now looking to rewrite his own nation’s history.
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+ The official death toll in Gaza since October 7, 2023 now stands at 73,821 killed and 174,897 injured. The real numbers are certainly higher, likely much higher. Since the first day of Trump’s “ceasefire” agreement on October 11, 2025, Israel has killed at least 1,386 Palestinians in Gaza and maimed another 4,784.
+ At least 94 percent of Palestinians living in Gaza are in need of safe, sanitary housing. Tens of thousands live in tents, and many thousands more live in damaged buildings. This week at least 21 Palestinians, including 12 children, were killed and 14 others wounded after an apartment building damaged by Israeli attacks collapsed in Gaza City. More than 2,000 residential buildings in Gaza are at risk of collapsing.
+ At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since October 7, 2023. The latest is a 21-year-old man named Muutaz Al-Atrash, who died in the notorious Ofer prison on Tuesday. He’d been held in “administrative detention” (meaning held without charges) for nearly a year. He had no health issues when he was taken into Israeli custody.
+ Last Saturday, Iman Shalouf was shot in the head by Israeli forces while she sat inside a tent in the al-Malwasi compound outside Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Shalouf, who was found bleeding from her head by her young daughter, was 27-years old and almost 8 months pregnant. She and her baby were pronounced dead at shell-shattered Nasser Hospital. Israeli troops were later seen wearing T-shirts with an image depicting a pregnant Palestinian woman in the crosshairs of a gunsight, with text reading: “One Shot, Two Kills.” Genocide as merch opportunity.: “One Shot, Two Kills.” Genocide as merch opportunity.
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
"The interviewees detail the secret methods used by the Israeli military in Gaza, including AI-based systems built to identify large numbers of potential low-ranking Hamas targets, who were then bombed in their homes at night, in the knowledge attacks would also kill their families"
More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils but Musk dismisses ‘psyop’
"“AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes),” wrote Samuel Marks, who works on safety research at Anthropic. “This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.”
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” Hubinger wrote. “I personally think it is >10% within the next decade."
‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power
"Bolsonaro’s shock win ushered in what, from a progressive perspective, were four abysmal years. Destruction of the Amazon rainforest and gun ownership skyrocketed, hundreds of thousands died during a Covid outbreak Bolsonaro was accused of mishandling, and the president’s authoritarian rhetoric and attacks on Brazil’s electronic voting system culminated in the 8 January 2023 riots in Brasília. The supreme court later called those disturbances part of a plot to “annihilate” the country’s democracy.
But the Bolsonaros still enjoy abundant support, and that devotion was visible as Flávio Bolsonaro’s motorcade crept towards the high street where his father was ambushed eight years ago."
What Brazil's Six Biomes Can Teach the World About Climate Solutions
"Brazil is a country of continental dimensions, so there is no one-size-fits-all solution. We deal with diverse challenges considering everyone who is part of this ecosystem. Therefore, governance is essential for solutions to be effective. We need to connect the government, the private sector, and traditional communities,” says Euler. “Biodiversity is essential, as 70% to 80% of it is under the responsibility of traditional peoples and communities. Therefore, it is crucial to establish a pact between society and government to support conservation in these territories,” she stated. "
Rede trumpista Rockbridge tentou esconder início de operação no Brasil
"O caso da Rockbridge Brasil veio à tona após o candidato à Presidência pelo Missão, Renan Santos, acusar Flávio Bolsonaro de se beneficiar de apoio financeiro clandestino associado a promessas de negócios no setor de terras raras, apontando como elo da campanha com os americanos Tallis Gomes, fundador da Easy Taxi e do G4 Educação. Segundo reportagem do Amado Mundo, também atuaria nessa ligação o empresário Pedro Sang, que teria ajudado a montar o comitê paulista da campanha de Flávio, onde ocuparia uma sala e se apresentaria como “Pedro da Rockbridge”."
leia reportagem de Cecilia Olliveira, Gisele Lobato e Nick Cleveland-Stout
Vamos com a idade nos acostumando a perder amigos. Mas nenhum jornalista que teve a sorte de conviver com Zuenir Ventura estava preparado para a notícia esperada já há algum tempo. Morreu o mestre que ensinou o Ancelmo a ser Ancelmo, o Joaquim a ser Joaquim, o Xexéo a ser Xexéo, o Zé Castello a ser Zé Castello, o Marcos Augusto Gonçalves a ser Marcos Augusto Gonçalves, o Dapieve a ser Dapieve, o Maurício Stycer a ser Maurício Stycer, a Míriam Leitão a ser Míriam Leitão, a Regina Zappa a ser Regina Zappa, o Alfredo Ribeiro a ser Tutty Vasques. Flor do orquidário de Dorrit Harazim (na foto de imensa ternura com ele), Flávio Pinheiro, Marcos Sá Corrêa, Armando Strozenberg, Ana Maria Machado, Nelson Motta, Ricardo Setti... Somos muitos e cada um de nós tem uma penca de boas histórias com o Zu para contar. Por ora, bateu a sensação de um tempo que acabou. Daqui a pouco a gente volta!
mais tutty no PASMADO https://pasmado.substack.com/i/212852603/o-cara-que-inventou-a-gente-1931-2026
