Lula’s courting of – or by – China and Western powers has confounded critics. But in reality, it is a continuation of the foreign policy he pursued during his earlier term in power.
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For the first time, a former US president has been indicted, and two scholars describe what it means for democracy – and for them.
Brazil’s military portrays itself as guardian of the country’s democracy when it has often been anything but.
Rather than weaken or oust Lula, the riots seem to have paradoxically strengthened the president politically.
Ousted right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro had been mobilising supporters with talk of electoral fraud.
Hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters have been arrested and state governors read the riot act for disloyalty to the elected government.
A very tight election victory, a divided country and an economy in tatters.
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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