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Brazil reelected Lula. In the United States, the Democrats won the House and the Senate. In nine days, two majorities handed defeats to Bolsonarism and Trumpism. Mexico has already shown the strength of a left-wing majority. Spain votes in November, and Milei heads into 2027 with his main ally weakened.
Last among the 27 state school systems in 2009, Piauí's high school system now has the second-highest score in the country on the Ideb, tied with Goiás and Espírito Santo and behind only Paraná. Under Governor Rafael Fonteles (PT-PI), in office since 2023, it rose from 6th to 2nd.
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.
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.
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.
The PT will back his re-election, because the rival is Rogério Marinho, of the PL, a party whose banner is the impeachment of Alexandre de Moraes. To pull votes from the right, Alcolumbre is discussing a pardon for Bolsonaro. The government did not sign on: Lula has already spoken publicly against pardoning Bolsonaro.
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.
Promulgated on October 16, the amendment guarantees two days of rest a week with no pay cut and lowers the workweek from 44 to 42 hours in December and to 40 hours at the end of 2027. According to Dieese, that is 26.8 million workers. Author of one of the amendments, Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) was reelected as the most-voted woman in the history of the Chamber.
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%.
One of the fathers of the Real Plan wants to cut the benchmark rate from 13.75% to 7.5% in a year, because it is interest, not spending, that makes public debt grow. Over 12 months, the public sector paid R$1.205 trillion in interest, 17 times the primary deficit. The idea reached Lula's campaign platform, and the harshest reaction came precisely from those who live by speculating with capital.
A week after entering the United States with White House approval, the senator has become the target of the #DeportTheBolsonaros hashtag, of wanted posters in New York and of a letter from 25 Democratic House members to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On Monday (November 2), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee asked Rubio to send him back "to face justice."
On Tuesday, November 3, the Supreme Federal Court hears from those who want to overturn the betting ban. Justice Luiz Fux's first list had ten clubs, the CBF, the betting houses' associations and the TV broadcasters' association. Psychiatrists, consumer advocates and child-protection groups, heard in 2024, were not invited. Outside the court, the Bets Nunca Mais petition already tops 140,000 names.
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.
By the IMF's projection for 2026, Japan's government debt reaches 199.4% of GDP, Italy's 137.9% and America's 126.8%. Seven of the G20's 19 economies owe more than they produce in a year. Brazil is 8th, at 97%.
From May to September, Brazilian agribusiness sold US$12.2 billion to the European Union, US$1.57 billion more than in the same period of 2025. Meat doubled, soy rose 34%, avocado and honey multiplied. The surplus with the bloc grew 17%.
Israeli Menachem Halevy entered Brazil six days before the runoff and crossed the border at Foz do Iguaçu seven minutes ahead of the senator's van, Fantástico showed. On the other side, a US$150,000 jet was waiting to fly to Miami. The Federal Police is investigating an operation planned under the name Alba.
Of the 39 bills he has introduced as first-named author since 2023, none became law. The only law carrying his name is a text by Marcel van Hattem signed by 64 deputies, where Nikolas is 46th on the list. In court, he has piled up four civil convictions to pay damages, two of them for transphobia.
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.
The PRODES rate went from 11,594 km² in 2022 to 3,335 km² in 2026, the lowest since 1988. In the previous government, it had gone from 7,536 km² to 11,594 km², with a peak of 13,038 km² in 2021.
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.
Defeated with 59,826,041 votes on the 25th, the senator left the country on the 28th through Puerto Iguazú and landed in Miami, a day after Moraes canceled his passports. The PF says Daniel Vorcaro paid R$60 million of the R$131 million Flávio asked for the film Dark Horse, and traced US$12.33 million sent to a U.S. fund. Flávio denies everything and has not yet been indicted.
The employer registry of the Superintendence of Labor Risks fell from 512,357 to 480,067 between November 2023 and July 2026. That is 437,000 fewer formal jobs, and 99.7% of the lost companies have up to 500 employees.
The state school system falls from 5th to 23rd place in the regular high school Ideb in ten years. In 2025 the score rose, but learning measured by Saeb dropped to its lowest level in 16 years: the improvement came from passing students.
The state school system drops from 1st to 10th place in the regular high school Ideb in ten years. Between 2023 and 2025, under Tarcísio, of the Republicanos party, it loses two more spots.
Abestadão argues that the ethics councils of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate should be made up of citizens from civil society, with fixed terms and no party affiliation. As long as colleague judges colleague, ethics in Congress will keep getting shelved.
