Crossfiled1 outlets · filed 2 October 2026
The Bolsonaros…they’re back! Brazil heads to the polls – podcast
Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports on this Sunday’s historic presidential elections in Brazil, as the son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro hopes to take power You would have been forgiven for thinking that when Jair Bolsonaro was convicted in September 2025 of attempting a cou
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France 24 and South China Morning Post frame the story almost identically, both centering Lula and Bolsonaro’s final push for votes and the “scandal”/“insults” atmosphere around the race. The two also share the same extract language about both sides trying to discredit each other ahead of Sunday’s “nail-biter” election. SCMP’s headline is slightly more neutral, using “clash,” while France 24 foregrounds “trade scandal fire.”
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