The Difficult Search for a “Brazilian Biden”
Bolsonaro looks beatable in 2022 if Brazil's opposition manages to overcome its internal divisions. Don't count on it.
Correction appended below SÃO PAULO - It is not surprising that many Brazilians eagerly followed the recent US presidential elections – after all, President Jair Bolsonaro projects himself as a "Trump of the Tropics" and openly rooted for another Trump victory When President-elect Joe Biden was declared victorious, it was only natural that numerous commentators in Brazil wondered which takeaways the US election offered to the country's opposition, eager to oust Bolsonaro in 2022 Some lessons seem fairly straightforward: Biden, it was noted in Brazil, was sufficiently centrist...
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