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Bolsonaro's 5 Key Foreign Policy Challenges in 2019

By Oliver Stuenkel

The new president’s foreign policy revolution creates unprecedented risks for Brazil – and depends on untested international partnerships.

To say that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s foreign policy views are controversial would be an understatement. Extreme positions on matters ranging from climate change to migration, and recent attacks on “globalism” and “cultural Marxism” by Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, have already affected Brazil’s reputation abroad, and not for the better. The following analysis, however, will leave out any criticisms of Bolsonaro’s overall foreign policy approach (which I have offered on previous occasions...

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