By Hedelberto López Blanch on October 8, 2026
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Following the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, in which far-right candidate Flavio Bolsonaro won 47.03% of the vote compared to 45.16% for the ruling party’s candidate seeking reelection, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It came as no surprise that the first to congratulate Bolsonaro were the convicted U.S. President Donald Trump and the Zionist leader of the genocide against the Palestinian people, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Recent media reports claim that both the United States and Israel have engaged in a virulent propaganda and financial campaign to try to overthrow Lula’s democratic and nationalist government.
The British newspaper The Guardian and the Brazilian publication Opera Mundi reported on documents from the Donald Trump administration and the U.S. Congress revealing the existence of a secret $1 million fund released by the State Department to finance actions against the the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF).
Funding for the program, titled “Countering Lawfare and Censorship in Brazil,” was released on September 30, five days before the first round of the Brazilian presidential election. The information comes from UOL, Brazil’s largest content, technology, services, and payment solutions company.
The same documents detail lobbying efforts by former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) with U.S. authorities to impose sanctions on Justice Alexandre de Moraes, with the stated goal of forcing an amnesty for his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro.
The documents describe the fund as a tool to “support civil society in the fight against excessive judicial activism and censorship in Brazil.”
One of the texts is more explicit and states that “the aim of the grant is to target Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the perception that the Court is attacking freedom of expression in the United States.”
Eduardo moved to Texas in February 2025 and, since then, has lobbied U.S. authorities to impose sanctions on Brazilian officials, focusing on Alexandre de Moraes.
The stated goal was to secure some form of amnesty for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for organzing a coup plot against Lula after his victory.
The campaign yielded concrete results. Moraes was ultimately sanctioned under the “Global Magnitsky Act,” while other justices of the Federal Supreme Court were placed on a U.S. visa restriction list by the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, private telecommunications companies controlled by Washington did their part. Ten days before the first round of the election, Meta—whose president and CEO is Mark Zuckerberg—disabled Lula’s advertising account on Facebook. The campaign appealed the decision and the account was reinstated, but the company did not publicly explain why it had blocked it. It was not a secondary account: Lula had invested millions of reais in political advertising and relied on that infrastructure to reach millions of voters.
Instagram also removed posts by ministers, activists, and social organizations supporting Lula during the campaign, while favoring right-wing candidates.
In other words, a private company decides what you see, what you don’t see, what gets promoted, what gets buried, and what disappears during a national election. It does so using ever-changing rules, algorithms that no one outside the company can truly audit, and automated systems capable of making mistakes affecting millions of people.
As for Israel, it is alleged that it has been working against the Brazilian government. Private companies from that country—such as BlackCore, BlackCube, and Team Jorge—that sell espionage services, digital campaigns, and political intervention are behind disinformation and smear campaigns against organizations, parties, and political leaders who do not support the Zionist regime, while promoting those who are aligned with it.
As is well known, the far-right Flavio has repeatedly declared that he will strengthen alliances with Israel, has defended the genocide committed by that regime against the Palestinians, and has stated that his first trips after being “elected” will be to Tel Aviv and Washington.
Flavio also claims that he will release his father, Jair Bolsonaro—who is imprisoned for attempting a coup against Lula’s government—and will quickly join the right-wing wave of Latin American governments directed by and from the United States.
That is why, now more than ever, it is essential for Brazil to remain a progressive and nationalist pillar in the Americas, and only Lula’s experience and prestige, together with grassroots and democratic organizations, can achieve this in the runoff election on October 25.
Source: Cuba en Resumen