Thanks!

A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.

Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.

This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)

Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...

The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.

Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

What would be a great neighborhood for 3 month stay in Sao Paulo?

Want to be able to on everything on foot: restaurants, gyms, supermarkets and shops.

Last time I stayed near Republica which is nice during the day and super scary at night.

Budget wise I just want it to be reasonable. I def dont want to spend to stay in Itaim Bibi or Faria Lima. Looking for a calm place like Lapa more more walkable.

Thanks.

Hi guys, I’m Brazilian living in the US and recently became a Muslim.

I was wondering if someone here is aware of a Muslim community around Macaé/Rio das Ostras/Campos? I’m not sure where else I’d ask for it, but this community is very broad so here I am lol

I’m visiting my family next year and I was hoping I could go to the mosque and find halal meats, but I’m starting to think that’ll be a reach.

Thanks!

(Not really looking for opinions regarding my choice of religion, thank you!)

I have narrowed down who I am going to support in Brazil to these two teams. Need to be Rio based as that will be my location.

As a Celtic supporter, I want to be supporting a club that is left leaning, working class and a history of being good with minorities.

Which one of these clubs best fits my description?

My wife (Brasileira) said there was supposed to be a debate last night between the teo candidates on Record News but was cancelled at the last minute. I can’t find any news on this. Anyone have any info?

I am (M30) married to a Brazilian. Last week something terrible happened to us and we will move to Brazil for personal reasons.
We had in mind to move to Brasil at some point, but not in three weeks.

Now I am wondering what I should do professionally as I know barely anything about the Brazilian job market.

What I understand :
I can work for a Brazilian company
I can work remotely, whether for myself, as a consultant, or as fractional employee.

The pros :
I have a working visa, and admin already done.
I read Portuguese well, and qualify for a local professional certificate (ANBIMA).
I love Brasil and its people.
More cachaça de Jambu.

The cons:
I see the Job market as hard right now.
I speak Portuguese, but it's more like ok than pro.
I have no network in Brasil, and social capital is very important.
I stayed in São Paulo for six months and I didn't like it much.

What's my field:
I work with financial markets and investments. I worked for central banks and public pension funds in New York where I started my career. I am used to work for institutions having >$1B invested or HNW individuals with >$100M in assets. I specialized in irrational market behaviors and decision-making psychology. I develop robust investment frameworks, asset allocation, diversification, cost control, and decision-making during financial crises. I also work with institutional client acquisition and retention to drive AUM growth for asset managers.
I can works for Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Family Offices and I am open to suggestion, commodities are an important business in Brazil for exemple.

I don't want to turn this post into a political debate. I'm French, so I have no right to speak on Brazilian politics, and we already have enough on our plate back home.

Has anyone else been through this? I'd love to hear your personal experiences on getting started here as a foreigner.

I’m also genuinely interested in your thoughts on what the right philosophy and mindset should be when moving to Brazil.

PL: 22.69%, PT: 13.00%, PSD: 8.25%, Republicanos: 6.95%, MDB: 6.93%, União: 6.92%, PP: 6.69%, Podemos: 5.17%, PSOL: 4.67%, PSB: 4.40%, NOVO: 2.56%, PSDB: 2.41%, PDT: 1.64%, Avante: 1.59%, PV: 1.20%, PCdoB: 1.15%, Missão: 1.08%, PRD: 1.06%, SD: 0.92%, Cidadania: 0.26%, REDE: 0.23%, DC: 0.10%, UP: 0.04%, MOBILIZA: 0.03%, Democrata: 0.02%, PSTU: 0.02%, Agir: 0.01%, PCO: 0.00%.

PCB and PRTB did not launch any federal deputy candidates.

With catupiry or no catupiry?

Quite a delicacy found in Sao Paulo's great market, the famous Mercadão.

A moderately common question that comes up here: “what gifts should I bring back from Brazil?”

Hopefully this can be a quick visual guide of some ideas. This is some of what we brought for ourselves and to share with friends.

Starting in the back left corner, variety boxes of candy bars. Similar to ‘fun size’ Halloween chocolates in North America. These are fun to bring to events or work because the ind wrappers and variety aspect.

Bis. Chocolate covered wafers, like 3g each piece so again great to share.

Chocolate bars. Filled with flavors; ‘trio’ bars with a cookie, chocolat, and filling; Alpino is a favorite brand; the brigadeiro was a personal impulas purchase by me.

Cookies! This is a personal favorite. Watch for some of the Oreo-like cream filled ones. passatempo is another one of the most popular product lines.

i feel like i got gaslit to hell and back by flavio bolsonaro supporters on the last post i made. yes, lula still had deforestation happen under him, but it was WAY LESS than jair bolsonaro's regime. FLAVIO BOLSONARO. WANTS. TO. ROLL. BACK. ENVIRONMENTAL. PROTECTIONS. OF. THE. AMAZON. OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE DIED OF COVID UNDER FLAVIO'S DAD'S ADMINISTRATION. lula also has austerity measures that i disagree with but electing someone like flavio bolsonaro is NOT the answer. i will not be gaslit. and YES, i know lula isn't perfect but he is significantly more democratic than bolsonaro. someone more progressive and less establishment should have run this time instead of lula.

Hi Brazilian friends

A little background explaining my ignorance.

I am a Brazilian living in USA. Been here since i was 1 and it’s been over 3 decades.

We long split up financially from Brazil and are fully integrated into the USA and so we rely on family and Globo for news.

Here’s my question (with another winded explanation lol): My family is from MG and they mostly (95%) all voted for Bolsenaro. These family members are successful business owners, civil servants, retirees, and regular office workers.

When I discuss this election with them they consistently bring up crime as their biggest concern. They are willing to deal with political corruption for a El Salvador type raid on crime. For them, there is no other priority beside the crime problem.

What has PT and Lula (at a federal level) done and accomplished to resolve crime in the short term. I know that in the long term, concepts such as education are being rolled out. But these take years to yield real results. For short term, has there been an effort to lower crime with policing? Favela raids against the Slum Lords?

I’ve been observing the Brazilian elections (from twitter lol) as a result of interacting with one tweet about the Brazilian presidential election and now my entire “For You” is in Portuguese 😂

Though this I have consistently noticed candidates running different positions always include a number by their name. I learned that this is because in order to vote for the candidates, you literally have to punch in the numbers to vote for them. I found this concept super interesting since I have never heard of this before in any other country!

So why do you guys do that? Is it to get people to really get to know who they’re voting for? So that they just don’t vote in some random person they don’t know?

How do you remember all of the numbers too? There’s so many positions like state deputy, federal deputy, governor, president, senator etc that you have to put in the numbers. And they’re kind of long for some of them too. Do you carry a sheet with their numbers when you go voting? Or do you just remember all the numbers before going to vote?

Honestly, this is a really cool system either way. I dig it.

Happened right after 1st round election.