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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, Au
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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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