U.S. Embassy in Brasilia sent a report to the State Department and other U.S. government agencies describing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory over Flávio Bolsonaro as surprising and definitive, with a margin close to 4.4 million votes.

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The document sent on Monday states that the election unfolded in a mostly peaceful setting, despite mobility and public transport disruptions in the south and northeast of the country.

The findings carry weight because they contradict the narrative pushed by Bolsonaro, who refused to accept the outcome.

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According to the report, the two-hour extension of voting hours, ordered by Supreme Federal Court Justice Cristiano Zanin and cited by Flávio to challenge his defeat, had minimal impact: the Superior Electoral Court reported that only 34,000 votes, approximately 0.03% of the total, were recorded after 5 P.M. local time. The U.S. embassy’s assessment also notes the opposition leader’s rejection of the outcome.

Observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) ratified full certainty in the results. They said they had “no doubt about the results,” although they considered the internal communication of the election organizers unsatisfactory.

📢 “Definitiva” e “surpreendente”

Embaixada dos Estados Unidos no Brasil reconhece o resultado das eleições brasileiras e fala em "vitória surpreendente", mas definitiva

Representação americana diz que a ampliação do horário teve efeito mínimo.

Trump ainda não reconheceu a… pic.twitter.com/CrzBsAfkH9

— Sleeping Giants Brasil (@slpng_giants_pt) October 30, 2026

Text reads: “”Definitive” and “surprising” : U.S. Embassy in Brazil recognizes the result of the Brazilian elections and speaks of a “surprising victory”, but definitive. U.S. representation says that the extension of the time had minimal effect. Trump has not yet recognized the re-election of Brazil’s president, but he also has not embarked on the dystopia of Flávio Bolsonaro.”

Trump Aided Bolsonaro Exit

The embassy’s position contrasts sharply with statements by U.S. President Donald Trump, who called the elections shameful while expressing a willingness to speak with Lula. The State Department authorized visas for Flávio Bolsonaro and his associates after their arrival in Miami on Wednesday, October 28.

A recent New York Times investigation, based on U.S. government sources, found that Trump and his advisers assisted Bolsonaro’s departure from Brazil. The far right politician was under investigation for corruption, money laundering and foreign exchange evasion.

Flávio Bolsonaro now finds himself in Florida under a temporary migratory status granted by Trump’s order, seeking for a permanent residence through an accelerated process.

The private plane that moved the Bolsonaro’s family from Argentina into U.S. territory was arranged by Jason Miller, a White House communications official. That detail links the flight directly to the administration’s inner circle.

Bolsonaro left Brazil roughly 48 hours after losing the runoff to Lula on Sunday, October 25. His departure came shortly after Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes requested the seizure of his passports, amid suspicions that he might leave the country to evade justice.

The embassy report does not address whether those judicial proceedings figured in the decision to grant entry. What it does establish is that the U.S. government, through its diplomatic mission in Brasilia, considers Lula’s win beyond dispute even as other branches of the same administration helped his defeated rival relocate to U.S. soil.

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O clube carioca enviou uma carta para solicitar a interrupção. Nela, a diretoria rubro-negra explica que é necessário aguardar a posição final do CAS sobre o caso de Marcos Rojo, que gerou polêmica nas últimas semanas.

A CNN Brasil teve acesso ao documento na íntegra, publicado primeiro pela ESPN.

“O Flamengo solicita que, a título de medida provisória, seja determinado à CONMEBOL que não comercialize os ingressos para a final destinados aos clubes finalistas até que seja notificada a decisão final — ou a sua parte dispositiva — no âmbito deste procedimento”, disse um trecho da carta.

O objetivo inicial do Flamengo era a suspensão da final até que o CAS definisse a questão envolvendo o zagueiro do Estudiantes, mas o julgamento ainda não aconteceu. A Conmebol, por sua vez, confirmou a decisão entre brasileiros e argentinos.

A entidade máxima do futebol sul-americano já iniciou a venda de ingressos para o setor misto. O Flamengo quer que a comercialização de entradas para os setores específicos de torcedores de Palmeiras e Estudiantes só comece após o julgamento do CAS.

O CAS pediu para que a Conmebol se manifeste sobre o assunto até a próxima segunda-feira (2). Por enquanto, não há definição entre as partes.

Entenda a polêmica com Marcos Rojo

Marcos Rojo chegou ao Estudiantes após deixar o Racing, em uma movimentação relacionada à necessidade de substituir Gabriel Neves, que sofreu uma lesão. A inscrição do zagueiro para a Libertadores, porém, enfrentou obstáculos junto à organização do torneio por questões relacionadas ao prazo regulamentar.

Diante do impedimento inicial, o Estudiantes recorreu ao TAS, com sede na Suíça, e obteve uma decisão de urgência que permitiu ao defensor entrar em campo enquanto a questão era analisada.

A autorização provisória se tornou o centro da disputa jurídica após o confronto entre as equipes pela semifinal. O Flamengo sustentou que a medida concedida pelo tribunal arbitral não representava uma decisão definitiva sobre a regularidade da inscrição do jogador.

A partir desse entendimento, o clube brasileiro apresentou uma reclamação à Comissão Disciplinar da Conmebol e solicitou medidas cautelares. O Estudiantes, por sua vez, defendeu que a participação do zagueiro ocorreu com respaldo em uma decisão válida do tribunal esportivo.

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Brazil’s Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office (MPT) has registered 3,396 complaints of electoral harassment in the workplace since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s runoff victory, and the federal government has announced emergency measures to stop retaliation against workers for their political views.

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The complaints, which include threats, reprisals and dismissals allegedly motivated by employees’ political leanings, represent 21.4% of all labor complaints counted this year and far exceed the volume reported in the 2022 election.

The MPT designed the package together with the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE), the Attorney General’s Office (AGU), the Superior Labor Court (TST) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP), with the aim of stopping workplace persecution and protecting the secrecy of the vote.

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Labor Minister Luiz Marinho said the figures reflect “the discontent of a sector of businesspeople who do not accept the natural and democratic result of the ballot box.” He added that every worker has a constitutional right to choose a political affiliation and that the government will apply severe penalties.

Labor Prosecutor General Gláucio Araújo de Oliveira warned of legal consequences. “The employer owns the company, not the employee’s vote,” he said, adding that firing or intimidating workers for their political convictions is illegal and will bring criminal and civil action in labor courts.

The measures include a digital platform on the Ministry of Labor and Employment’s portal to receive testimony and evidence of discrimination or coercion at work, and labor inspectors who will issue infraction notices with cumulative fines. A public registry of companies convicted of discriminatory practices will also be created.

Authorities asked technology companies such as Google and Meta to take down content, groups and boycott lists organized on social media against workers or businesses.

Assédio eleitoral, listas de boicote e perseguição política no trabalho são crimes!
  
O Ministério Público do Trabalho já registou milhares de denúncias de assédio eleitoral, ultrapassando os números de eleições anteriores. pic.twitter.com/S3oRF0ymC7

— CUT Brasil (@CUT_Brasil) October 30, 2026

Text reads: “Electoral harassment, boycott lists and political persecution at work are crimes! The Labor Public Prosecutor’s Office has already recorded thousands of complaints of electoral harassment, exceeding previous election figures.”

Concern for Native Communities

The post-election climate has also affected rural areas and native people’s territories, particularly the Guaraní and Kaiowá communities in Mato Grosso do Sul. The National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai) called reports of harassment and armed attacks “extremely worrying” and is coordinating protection with the Federal Police and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.

The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) and the organization Aty Guasu forwarded the complaints, with backing from Amnesty International, Greenpeace and federal lawmaker Célia Xakriabá before the Chamber of Deputies’ Human Rights Commission. “These are communities facing direct threats to their lives, access to water and ancestral territories,” Xakriabá said, calling for the immediate intervention of the National Force.

The ministries of Human Rights and Citizenship, Racial Equality and Indigenous Peoples formed a joint monitoring table to investigate attacks motivated by politics and racial hatred against native peoples, quilombola communities and Afro-Brazilian religious centers. Whether the labor penalties and the monitoring table produce concrete cases will show how far the measures go beyond announcements.

Brazil's socialist government announced a series of censorship measures to fight "electoral harassment" in the country's workplaces.

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Large numbers of Sahrawi citizens took to the streets in El Aaiún, the largest city in Western Sahara, on Monday, to demand a just United Nations-sponsored solution that guarantees their right to freedom, self-determination, and independence. The demonstrations come as the United States allegedly pushes a draft UN Security Council resolution that would make Morocco’s autonomy plan the sole basis for negotiations over the future of the territory.

The US-drafted text, reportedly circulated among Security Council members on October 22, has drawn strong objections from the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi independence movement, as well as human rights and solidarity organizations. Arguing the proposal risks predetermining the outcome of negotiations by placing Morocco’s plan over Western Sahara at the center of the process, rather than allowing the Sahrawi people to freely decide their political future.

The dispute comes as the Security Council considers the future of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), established in 1991 to support the UN-OAU Settlement Plan, which included a referendum on self-determination.

Polisario Front warns it could withdraw from the peace process

In a letter from October 22 to Aglaia Balta, Greece’s permanent representative to the United Nations and current president of the Security Council, Dr Sidi Mohamed Omar, the Polisario Front’s representative to the UN, strongly rejected the US zero-draft.

Omar said the text “fully reflects the national position of the penholder as well as that of Morocco, the occupying state,” describing it as “another extremely dangerous, unprecedented departure” from international law and the UN framework governing Western Sahara’s decolonization.

He added that the process cannot be reduced to Security Council Resolution 2797 (2025), but must be understood within the wider body of relevant UN resolutions and the original agreement underpinning MINURSO. The mission was established under Resolution 690 (1991), following an agreement between the Polisario Front and Morocco, based on the UN-OAU Settlement Plan.

According to the Polisario Front, changing the framework unilaterally would align the mission with Morocco’s position and undermine international efforts to resolve the territory’s status through decolonization.

“The non-compliance of Morocco, the occupying state, with its commitments under the UN-OAU Settlement Plan, which was adopted unanimously by the Security Council, cannot justify any infringement upon the inalienable right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and sovereignty over their homeland,” Omar wrote.

Emphasizing that the text “cannot constitute a basis for any deliberations on MINURSO or the peace process in Western Sahara” and warned that, if it passed without “substantive and meaningful changes,” the movement “would have no choice but to disengage from the peace process as a whole.” But remains committed to a just, lasting, and definitive peace.

Morocco’s autonomy plan

One of the main concerns raised by the Western Sahara Research Watch (WSRW) is the reported change in the language of the draft. The text reportedly describes Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the “only basis” for negotiations, strengthening the language of the 2025 resolution, which referred to it as “a basis.”

The WSRW argues that the difference is substantial. While autonomy could theoretically be one option freely chosen by the Sahrawi people, making Morocco’s proposal the sole basis in advance risks narrowing the political choices available to them.

The organization asks, “How can the people freely determine the territory’s future if negotiations may only take place within a model that presupposes Moroccan sovereignty?”

Going farther, the draft describes autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty as the most feasible solution. This shifts the purpose of negotiations away from determining Western Sahara’s status and towards negotiating the terms of Moroccan control.

The WSRW also warns that the draft’s references to consulting Sahrawis in the territory, in refugee camps, and throughout the diaspora do not guarantee that they will have a decisive role in determining the outcome.

“Being heard is not the same as being allowed to decide,” the organization argues.

The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) has also called on the United Nations to uphold international law and the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.

International law and the question of sovereignty

The Campaign for the Right to Self-Determination of the People of Western Sahara (CODESA) has also rejected the premise that international recognition of Morocco’s claim can determine the territory’s legal status.

“Recognition by third states cannot turn occupation into sovereignty,” the organization argues.

Western Sahara remains on the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. In its 1975 advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that the materials and information presented to it did not establish any tie of territorial sovereignty between Western Sahara and Morocco that would displace the application of self-determination through the free and genuine expression of the territory’s people.

CODESA also points to the UN General Assembly Resolution 34/37, adopted in 1979, which deplored Morocco’s continued occupation of Western Sahara and reaffirmed the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence. It further cites the UN Legal Counsel’s 2002 opinion on the legality of resource exploration in the territory and the 2024 rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union, reaffirming Western Sahara’s separate and distinct status from Morocco.

CODESA maintains that a political outcome cannot be declared in advance and then presented as self-determination. It invokes UN General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV), which sets out principles relevant to the exercise of self-determination, including that integration with another state must result from the freely expressed wishes of the people through an informed and democratic process.

The organization also objects to the United States’ prominent role as facilitator, arguing that a mediator that has already recognized Morocco’s claim cannot be assumed to be impartial. It maintains that negotiations must allow the parties to present their positions without imposing one party’s proposal as the only acceptable framework.

“Negotiations in which only the occupying power’s proposal may be discussed are not negotiations; they are terms of surrender offered to the occupied people,” CODESA says.

Over the years, Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara has gained diplomatic support as several countries have shifted their positions towards recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory rewarded by trade deals.  But these diplomatic changes have not resolved the central question of Western Sahara’s future, and the right of the Sahrawi people to determine their own political status. 

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