Bolsonaro seen as Trump's pro-Israel partner in Brazil

Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro offers the hope of a new Latin American government that will partner with the Trump administration to stymie the influence of socialist regimes in the region and back Trump’s pro-Israel, anti-Iran push in the Middle East, according conservatives.

“It is an important, maybe watershed, moment,” James Roberts, a Heritage Foundation research fellow, told the Washington Examiner. “It’s very positive, I think, for Brazil. It’s positive for Latin America and, I think, for U.S.-Brazil relations.”