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Women listen on a mobile phone to an interview of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running again for president, with Jornal Nacional on TV Globo, outside a bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, August 25, 2022. The Superior Electoral Court, the country's top electoral authority, announced Thursday, Oct, 20, that it would be banning &quot;false or seriously decontextualized&quot; content that “affects the integrity of the electoral process.” No request from a prosecutor or complainant is necessary for the court to take action. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)

Brazilian voters bombarded with misinformation before vote

By Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Electoral workers move electronic voting machine boxes at a distribution center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Brazil's general elections are scheduled for Oct. 2. Brazilians head to polls on Oct. 2 to elect a president, vice president, governors and senators. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Brazil holds historic election with Lula against Bolsonaro

By Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for a second term, rides a horse at the Barretos Rodeo International Festival in Barretos, Sao Paulo state Brazil, Aug. 26, 2022. Bolsonaro is betting on a program crafted to distribute land ownership to thousands of rural farmers as a tool to win over some countryside voters and eventually beat Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Oct. 2, 2022 election. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro hopes land titles will lure rural votes

By Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Brazil's former president, who is running for reelection, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, appears in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 3, 2022, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, right, attends a meeting on June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they'll have a choice between reelecting Bolsonaro, or bringing back former president da Silva. (AP Photos)

Problematic or perilous: Brazil’s environmental choice

By Fabiano Maisonnave and Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Brazil's former president who is running for reelection, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, speaks during a campaign rally in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Lula da Silva asks for calm after ally’s killing

By Mauricio Savarese and Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, center, leads a motorcycle rally in Manaus, Brazil, June 18, 2022. With the election just three months off, some polls show only one in five women will vote for the tough-talking, pro-gun, motorcycle-riding former Army captain. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Bolsonaro’s reelection hopes dim unless he wins over women

By Débora Álvares and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Confetti showers former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and supporters after the announcement of his candidacy for the country’s upcoming presidential election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Brazil's general elections are scheduled for Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s Lula courts centrists at unofficial campaign launch

By Mauricio Savarese and Débora Álvares - Associated Press

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with the Workers' Party, right, and former Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin, with Brazilian Socialist Party, pose for photos during a campaign event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, April 8, 2022. Lula da Silva signaled that he will choose his former rival as his running mate in October's election. (AP Photo/Marcelo Chello)

Brazil’s Lula taps former rival as his pick for running mate

By Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks from his home in Sao Paulo during an interview with The Associated Press via a cloud-based video conferencing service, as seen from a laptop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

AP Interview: ‘Lula’ says Bolsonaro a disaster amid pandemic

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks to supporters after he was released from jail where he was imprisoned on corruption charges in Curitiba, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Da Silva walked out of prison less than a day after the Supreme Court ruled that a person can be imprisoned only after all the appeals have been exhausted. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Freed ex-president tells crowd Brazil’s left can win in 2022

By MARIO LOBÃO and DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Police attempt to defuse a situation between supporters of jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and President Jair Bolsonaro, as both groups keep vigil outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian ex-president, released from imprisonment

By Mario Lobao and Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Supporters of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, shout slogans across the street from an act in support of operation Car Wash and former judge Sergio Moro, in front of Supreme Court headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Brazil's Supreme Court will decide about a prisoner involved in the Car Wash operation, an anti-corruption investigation that managed to jail politicians and businessmen all over Latin America, that could open a door for others arrested during the operation, to appeal their sentences. The former president was jailed as a result of the Car Wash investigations. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Lula da Silva rejects semi-open prison conditions

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A supporter of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a poster that says in Portuguese &quot;Free Lula&quot; as his lawyers ask the Supreme Court to free him after he was jailed in connection with the &quot;Car Wash&quot; corruption investigation in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. Da Silva’s lawyers argue then-judge Sergio Moro offered guidance to prosecutors in investigations that led to da Silva’s conviction. Moro has said he did nothing improper. The court denied the petition. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s top court denies petition to release ex-president

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Vice presidential candidate Fernando Haddad and his wife Ana Estela arrive to a Workers' Party National Executive members meeting to discuss the replacement of jailed presidential candidate, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Curitiba, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. While da Silva leads preference polls, he is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption and has been barred from running. The party is expected to announce that Haddad will replace da Silva. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil race begins in earnest with da Silva off party ticket

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

Jair Bolsonaro suffered intestinal damage and serious internal bleeding when he was stabbed Thursday during a campaign event. (Associated Press)

Jair Bolsonaro, Lula reflect Brazil’s election chaos

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Debate mediator Ricardo Boechat, center, stands with Brazil's presidential candidates before the start of a debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, ahead of October elections. From left are Alvaro Dias of Podemos Party, Cabo Daciolo of Patriota Party, Geraldo Alckmin of the Social Democratic Party, Marina Silva of the Sustainability Network Party, Jair Bolsonaro of the National Social Liberal Party, Guilherme Boulos of the Socialism and Liberty Party, Henrique Meirelles of the Democratic Movement Party, and Ciro Gomes of the Democratic Labor Party. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s presidential debate held - without Da Silva

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Sao Paulo's former mayor Fernando Haddad speaks during the Workers Party national convention in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. The convention confirmed the jailed Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as their candidate for the country's presidency in October's election. Da Silva leads the polls by a large margins, but is likely to be barred by Brazil's electoral justice. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

Lula da Silva’s party chooses Plan B in Brazil race

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil’s Silva has cancerous tumor in larynx

By STAN LEHMAN - Associated Press

Brazil picking successor to popular president

By Bradley Brooks - Associated Press