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Lula and Trump are on a collision course
The towering figures of the North American right and the South American left are set to clash this summer as Brazil hosts Brics, an alliance Trump is determined to smash, reports TONY BURKE
SCARING TRUMP: (Left to right) Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s President Xi Jinping, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister at the Brics summit in Johannesburg, August 2023
Westminster has been forced to pay out millions over a fire started by a soldier in 2021, opening a new chapter in accountability, writes NICHOLAS KOMU
Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG
Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the war of extermination of Gaza, reports AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN
From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
THE second coming of Donald Trump has encouraged right-wing politicians in Europe and South America to line up behind the US president. Jair Bolsonaro, who lost the last Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) in 2022, thinks he could make a comeback. He said himself “Trump is back, and it’s a sign we’ll be back, too.”
But now he faces a jail term after he was formally accused of masterminding a conspiracy to overthrow the government and conduct a campaign of assassination of political enemies. Many experts, politicians and trade unions in Brazil expect him to be jailed.
Although it could happen, few see Trump riding to his rescue with threats of tariffs and attempts to destabilise the country; last time around, it was reported that the Trump administration lost interest in Bolsonaro.
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