Brazil’s Lula is damaging democracy and allying himself with foreign autocrats

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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro ended up being a clownish autocrat. Still, he generally supported the United States in international affairs. The same definitely cannot be said of Brazil’s current returner president, Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva. Indeed, the only apt comparison between Bolsonaro and Lula is that both men have little regard for democratic norms.

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