(October 2, 2026)
In a simulated runoff, Lula would receive 48% of the vote compared with 45% for Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. A previous Datafolha poll had Lula leading Bolsonaro by 47% to 45%.
Archiv: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula)
Lula Government Pushes Back Against Milei Over Map Depicting Brazil as a Favela and Takes Aim at Argentine Poverty
Vieira said that „the map posted by President Milei needs an urgent update“ and presented data favorable to Brazil without directly mentioning Argentina. The minister highlighted that under President Lula, the country „is modernizing and addressing its social problems,“ has a „growing economy, the lowest unemployment levels, international reserves of US$ 360 billion,“ and has exited the Hunger Map.
Vieira also noted that Brazil has had a „stable currency for 30 years“ and does not owe „a single cent to the IMF,“ while a government source pointed to Argentina’s financial difficulties.
In 2024, Milei’s first year in office, poverty in Argentina surged to 52.9%, later falling to 31.6% in the first half of the year—still higher than Brazil’s 23.1%. The IMF extended a US$ 20 billion loan to the country.
Brazil‘s Lula, Argentina‘s Milei clash over Venezuela at Mercosur summit
resident Javier Milei clashed with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Saturday at the regional Mercosur summit about the fate of Venezuela, as US President Donald Trump ratcheted up the pressure on Caracas.
Sparring comments from Lula and Milei came at a meeting of the South American bloc, at which a future trade deal with the European Union was on the agenda.
Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel‘s Fuel Suplly
(November 13, 2025)
Table 1: Crude Oil Shipments to Israel –
November 1, 2023 – October 1, 2025
Origin Country
Crude Oil (in tonnes)
Number of Shipments
Turkey (Azeri) 7,146,417 61
Russia (Kazakh) 5,362,251 55
Gabon 2,288,858 21
Nigeria 1,112,229 12
Brazil 584,041 4
Republic of the Congo 391,602 3
Egypt 335,066 8
Democratic Republic of the Congo 326,210 3
Angola 132,142 1
Equatorial Guinea 79,400 1
Russia (Russian) 76,790 1
Ghana 68,364 1
TOTAL 17,903,370 171
Twenty-five states funnelled oil to Israel during genocide: Report
(November 14, 2025)
Twenty-five countries supplied Israel with crude oil and refined petroleum throughout its two-year genocide in Gaza, a new report has revealed.
An updated report by Oil Change International tracked a total of 323 shipments from 25 countries carrying nearly 21.2 million tonnes of crude oil and refined products to Israel between November 1 2023 and 1 October 2025.
Lula speaks out against US threats to Venezuela: „Brazil will be on the side of peace“
In a tepid message, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his commitment to peace on Friday in the face of regional tensions generated by the recent deployment of U.S. warships off the coast of Venezuela.
In this regard, he stated that the South American nation „will be on the side it has always been, on the side of peace,“ emphasizing that war only brings death and poverty.
„If there‘s a disagreement between two nations, there‘s nothing better or cheaper than sitting down at a negotiating table and talking,“ he added, reaffirming that Brazil neither has nor wants any international conflict.
Speech by President Lula at the opening of the 37th African Union Summit
Our paths will meet again at the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, and at COP 30, in Belém. The presence of the African Union as a full member of the G20 will be of great value—but including more countries from the continent as full members is still also necessary. We have common agendas to defend.
It is unacceptable that a world capable of generating wealth in the order of USD 100 trillion dollars per year still harbors the hunger of more than 735 million people. We are creating the Global Alliance against Hunger at the G20 so as to promote a set of public policies and mobilize resources to finance them.
Around 60 countries—many of them in Africa—are coming close to financial insolvency, allocating more resources to paying external debt than to education or health. This reflects the obsolete nature of financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, which often worsen crises that they should be resolving.
Lula meets African presidents, speaks of strong Global South
On a visit to Ethiopia, Brazilian President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva said Sunday (Feb. 18) that Brazil has a historical debt to Africa and advocated that the countries of the Global South step up their relations. He traveled to attend the 37th African Union Summit, which brought together heads of state and members of government from the 54 countries of the African continent. As a guest, President Lula took the opportunity to hold meetings and bolster bilateral ties.
Brazil recalls ambassador to Israel in row over Lula’s Gaza comments
Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Israel, and Israel says Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is not welcome in the country in a diplomatic rift after Lula compared Israel’s military campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust.
‚It is killing women and children‘: Brazil‘s Lula slams Israel
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio „Lula“ da Silva said on Thursday that the United Nations has failed to resolve international conflicts and harshly criticised Israeli actions in Gaza.
Brazil backs South Africa‘s ICJ genocide case against Israel
Brazil´s President Lula Da Silva has announced his country’s support for South Africa’s case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. The announcement came just hours before the ICJ opens the first session of the hearing in The Hague.
After 2016 — first Brexit, then Trump‘s win — Western elites decided populations could no longer be trusted with basic freedoms: they choose and think wrong. That‘s what led to the censorship/“disinformation“ regime. Now they‘re barring the leading candidate from running:
Imagine if Biden wins with Trump banned or jailed: US sermons about „democracy,“ or condemning Putin imprisoning Navalny, will be seen as an even bigger joke than now.
One of the West‘s key dissidents (Assange) is jailed. They censor dissent. Now they‘re trying to ban Trump.
It‘s always been a huge propagandistic mystery that the US media succeeds in convincing Americans that the US Govt defends freedom as it props up the worst dictators (Saudi, Egypt, etc.).
They‘re now escalating it in desperation: first after 2016, now seeing Trump/Biden polls.
Fear of free populations is a global trend. In Brazil, they imprisoned Lula in 2018 when leading all polls, then banned Bolsonaro from running.
In Pakistan, CIA engineered removal and imprisonment of Imran Khan.
All Western countries are increasing online speech controls.
Virtually any country can invoke the Genocide Convention at the World Court (@CIJ_ICJ — different from the pro Israeli @IntlCrimCourt). Irish Nobel Laureate urges Ireland to do it. What country will it be that does this historic deed? South Africa? Brazil? Bolivia?
(November 12, 2023)
Who?
Linksregierungen in Lateinamerika fordern globalen Norden heraus
New York. Die links-gerichteten Präsident:innen aus Lateinamerika haben bei der 78. Vollversammlung der Vereinten Nationen grundlegende Veränderungen der globalen wirtschaftlichen und politischen Ordnung gefordert. Sie übten scharfe Kritik am internationalen Finanzsystem und am Krieg in der Ukraine, die in ihren Augen den Kampf gegen Armut, Ungleichheit und Klimawandel verhindern.
Ecuador: Spionageberichte von UC Global über Rafael Correa sollen an CIA gegangen sein
UC Global wurde ursprünglich von der ecuadorianischen Regierung unter Correa mit der Sicherheit in der Botschaft des Andenstaates in London betraut, in der Julian Assange 2012 Zuflucht suchte. Im Schatten ihres eigentlichen Auftrags belauschte die Firma damals mehrere Gespräche zwischen Assange und seinen Anwälten und Besuchern, kopierten die Daten ihrer elektronischen Geräte und gaben die erlangten Informationen an den US-Auslandsgeheimdienst CIA weiter. Im August 2022 verklagten deshalb Anwältinnen von Assange und zwei Journalisten den CIA, dessen Ex-Chef Mike Pompeo und UC Global.
A Spanish security company allegedly spied on Rafael Correa at the request of the CIA | The newspaper El País published documents from a case pending in Madrid
In another part of the article published by the Spanish newspaper it is stated that Morales allegedly spied on Correa’s two daughters through computer viruses installed on his phones in 2014 when he was still in government. The two iPhone 5s delivered by UC Global to Sofia and Anne had “Trojan horses” from the Tradesegur company installed. These Trojans allowed full control over their messages and conversations while the girls studied in France without their parents knowing.
Spanish company that spied on Assange allegedly informed CIA about meetings held by Latin American leaders
David Morales, owner of the Spanish security company UC Global, S.L., which spied on Julian Assange during the Wikileaks founder’s time at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, also allegedly spied for the CIA on meetings held in 2018 by the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa (2007-2017), with former presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and José Mujica – according to a new examination of his MacBook laptop ordered by Spanish Judge Santiago Pedraz, who has been investigating Morales for three years.
Conversei agora por telefone com o presidente da Rússia, Vladimir Putin. Agradeci a um convite para ir ao Fórum Econômico Internacional de São Petersburgo, e respondi que não posso ir a Rússia nesse momento, mas reiterei a disposição do Brasil, junto com a Índia, Indonésia e China, de conversar com ambos os lados do conflito em busca da paz.
Telefonat mit Putin: Lula lehnt Einladung nach Russland ab
Ein Treffen zwischen Lula und seinem ukrainischen Kollegen Wolodymyr Selenskyj auf dem G7-Gipfel in Japan war vor wenigen Tagen geplatzt. Lula sagte danach, er sehe keinen Sinn darin, Selenskyj momentan zu treffen. Weder Selenskyj noch Putin seien an Frieden interessiert.
Ukraine’s Dpty FM, Chief Adviser to President of Brazil discuss ways of establishing peace in Ukraine, expanding partnership
On Wednesday, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andriy Melnyk, held a meeting with Chief advisor to the Special Advisory of the Presidency of Brazil, Ambassador Celso Amorim, during which the parties discussed the possibility of Brazil joining the search for ways to ensure sustainable and long-term peace in Ukraine based on respect for international law, restoration of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Brazilian President Lula Da Silva slams US and Europe for fueling war | Latest World News | WION
Following his visit to China on Saturday, UAE President Muhammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan met with Brazilian President Lula de Silva to explore a potential cooperative mediation effort for Russia‘s conflict in Ukraine with China.
Präsident von Brasilien will mit China und den Emiraten im Ukraine-Krieg vermitteln
Lula, der sich zuvor drei Tage lang in Peking aufhielt, besuchte am Samstag und Sonntag die VAE. Er habe mit seinen Amtskollegen Mohammed bin Zayid al Nahyan und Xi Jinping über die Schaffung einer Gruppe von Ländern ähnlich der G20 gesprochen, um im Konflikt zwischen Russland und der Ukraine zu vermitteln, erklärte er gegenüber Medienvertretern.
I had the pleasure of welcoming President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the UAE. Brazil has long been a key strategic partner of the UAE and our talks explored further opportunities for collaboration focused on sustainability, innovation & economic opportunity.
(15.04.2023)
China, Brazil share positive roles in peace, development
Xi and Lula also exchanged views on the Ukraine crisis and both agreed that dialogue and negotiations are the only feasible way for settling it. They appealed to more countries to play a constructive role for a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis.
Xi Jinping: China will chinesisch-brasilianischen Beziehungen in der neuen Ära eine neue Zukunft eröffnen
Die beiden Staatschefs tauschten sich auch über die Ukraine-Krise aus. Beide Seiten waren sich einig, dass Dialog und Verhandlungen der einzig gangbare Weg aus der Krise in der Ukraine seien und dass alle Bemühungen, die zu einer friedlichen Lösung der Krise beitragen, gefördert und unterstützt werden sollten. Sie riefen mehr Länder dazu auf, eine konstruktive Rolle bei der Förderung einer politischen Lösung der Krise in der Ukraine zu spielen, und beschlossen, die Kommunikation in dieser Hinsicht fortzusetzen.
Lula Finally Visits China
Earlier, on Thursday, the PT member will attend the inauguration of former president Dilma Rousseff at the BRICS Development Bank, in Shanghai. Lula wants investment in new productive assets and infrastructure, including railroads and hydroelectric plants, while his Chinese counterpart demands Brazil‘s formal entry into the Belt and Road Initiative, which completes ten years in September.