Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc
Brazil's upcoming presidential election is being framed as a critical test for the influence of a right-wing, pro-Trump political bloc in Latin America. The race between incumbent Lula da Silva and his opposition remains extremely tight.
Why it matters
The election outcome could significantly shift the geopolitical alignment of Latin America and its relationship with the United States.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a candidate for re-election for the Workers' party, attends a rally in São Gonçalo, Brazil. Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup
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Prefer the Guardian on Google S hortly after his controversial speech to the United Nations general assembly in September, Donald Trump gathered a dozen like-minded Latin American leaders and boasted that rightwing candidates had won all seven presidential elections held in the region since he began his second term.
“Everybody I’ve endorsed has won,” the US president said in New York to most of the leaders of the Shield of the Americas, an anti-drug cartel coalition of 15 countries governed by the right or far right.
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