00:00And in this scenario, for more details on how the nation is living the post-election,
00:04we go to Sao Paulo live with our correspondent, Ryan Meir.
00:07Welcome, Ryan, once more to From the South.
00:11Hi, yeah, well, I've been listening to what you were saying,
00:14and I know Rosa Morin, she's someone I've done about seven or eight news stories with
00:20for Tell Us Our English, so this is good news, very good news to see her in Congress.
00:26Basically, this isn't really coming out internationally much,
00:30but the big gains that the Bolsonaro Party, Liberal Party, made in Congress
00:36were at the expense of the traditional center-right.
00:39The left parties, the three primary left-wing parties in Brazil,
00:44the PT, the PSOL, which is the Socialism and Freedom Party,
00:48and the Communist Party of Brazil, Pesce do Be, they all made gains.
00:52Pesce do Be, the Communist Party, almost doubled its size in Congress,
00:57from six members to 11 members of federal deputies.
01:01The PSOL picked up a few, and the Workers' Party picked up three.
01:05So the losses that were incurred were not to this left.
01:08Of course, everyone who supports the left was hoping they would pick up more seats,
01:14but they gained ground.
01:15They didn't lose ground.
01:17Now, there's a lot of analysis going on inside of the Brazilian Workers' Party,
01:22and I saw something today, an internal document,
01:26which will be released to the public later today,
01:29called The Smell of Cambridge Analytica is in the Air.
01:32And what the analyst is saying, he's a political sociologist,
01:37he's saying that it's not that the company, Cambridge Analytica,
01:40which, after all, is defunct, is operating in Brazil,
01:42but Cambridge Analytica techniques were used yesterday in the election.
01:47And the reason for that is because there's the second highest number of abstentions
01:53in the post-democratic period in Brazil.
01:5621% of the population didn't vote yesterday.
02:00And so they're looking for patterns to see if this was at higher levels
02:05in cities where Lula had more votes in 2022.
02:09And the initial research they're looking at, looking at two cities in Minas Gerais,
02:15where Lula had 70 and 75% of the vote, respectively, in 2022,
02:20they had some of the highest abstention rates in the country.
02:24Now, in the movie, The Big Hack about Cambridge Analytica,
02:27they talk about how Cambridge Analytica was hired to win an election in Trinidad,
02:32and they did that concluding that it's easier to convince people not to vote
02:36than to convince them to change sides.
02:38And so they ran a campaign targeted at the black demographic in Trinidad
02:43to motivate them not to vote, to deliver the election to the Indian Trinidadian coalition
02:49that was running.
02:50And it seems like, at least they're suggesting within the party,
02:53that's one of the tactics that was used yesterday in this kind of hybrid war operation,
02:59which is seeing the international far-right, Silicon Valley big tech,
03:04the Trump administration all openly supporting Flavio Bolsonaro and openly interfering
03:09in the election process here in Brazil.
03:12But last night, I saw Lula give his speech at the end of the vote count,
03:16and he said he's been in runoff elections already two times.
03:19He won them both.
03:20The difference was very small, and he thinks that the Workers' Party is capable of making up the difference
03:25on October 25th by convincing people who didn't vote in the first-round election
03:30to come out to the polls that day.
03:33Thank you, Brian, very much for those interesting details that we tend not to hear about
03:39in the international arena.
03:40Thank you very much for the information.
03:42We're going to stay put in tune for other contacts in Occupy News Brief
03:46to have more information on everything that is happening around Brazil.
