Reelected with 64.2 million votes against an opponent backed by Trump and by the family that tried a coup, Lula was hailed by Brussels, Paris and Madrid as a victory for democracy. From Mexico's president to Mélenchon's supporters in France, the world made the L.
Trump lost Congress, and the allies who wore his cap around the world are in trouble too: Netanyahu is left without a majority in Israel's parliament, Flávio Bolsonaro fled to the United States, and Milei's Argentina has closed more than 32,000 companies.
The three Senate candidates Trump hand-picked in key states lost. His party gave up the Senate, the House and four governorships. In exit polls, six in ten voters said Trump weighed on their vote, and only 38% approved of the president.
NBC projects a Democratic majority in both chambers. In the Senate, there were seven flips, from Texas to Maine, where Susan Collins lost; the tally goes to 54 to 44. In the House, the estimate is 258 Democratic seats to 177. In the states, Democrats took the governorships of Georgia, Ohio, Iowa and Nevada.
On October 8, he wrote that he would not attack Iran "at any time prior to the Midterm Elections." On Monday (November 2), one day before the vote, American forces struck targets on Qeshm island, in the Strait of Hormuz. The White House called it a "defensive" attack.
By the count of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the most restrictive of all, Israel has killed 241 media professionals since October 2023: 191 Palestinians in Gaza and in prisons, plus people killed in Yemen, Lebanon and Iran. In 74 cases, the committee confirmed the journalist was a deliberate target.
In a call described as tough, the Israeli prime minister asked that the bombing resume right after November 3. In October, Trump blocked a strike Israel had ready. The claim that Netanyahu wants a nuclear bomb comes from Tucker Carlson, with no proof; Trump says he would not use one.
The public sector paid R$1.205 trillion in interest in the 12 months through September, 17 times the primary deficit and 7.6 times the Bolsa Família budget. More than half of federal debt bonds are held by banks and investment funds. The small Tesouro Direto saver holds 3.1%.
The Lula government's proposal writes the Unified Public Security System into the Constitution, shields security money from freezes and toughens sentences for gang and militia bosses. It goes straight to promulgation. Lowering the age of criminal responsibility was left out and will move separately.
At the opening of the Supreme Court's public hearing, the rapporteur of the cases against the ban said gambling addiction is a public health problem. His vote still depends on ten other justices, and the trial has been stalled since August by a request for review from Flávio Dino.
Deaths at the hands of on-duty military police nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025 (+88%): 813 people killed by police in 2024, 835 in 2025 and 480 from January to August 2026 alone. So far, no police officer has been found convicted for those deaths; in the Baixada Santista, 17 of 23 investigations were shelved.
CartoonImagine a court in which the judge, the prosecutor and the defendant lunch together, share the same office, trade votes on bills and depend on one another to pass earmarks next year. Nobody would accept that court to judge a neighbor. It is exactly what Brazil accepts to judge its deputies and senators.
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