Facing Bolsonaro's Brazil: A progressive U.S. foreign policy toward Brazil must neither defer to nor confront far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. instead, it should illuminate his antidemocratic tendencies while centering key global fights against inequality and climate change

Inequality and climate change It's a story he has told many times: Former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended the 29th G8 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, during his first year in office in 2003. When Bolsonaro visited the White House in March 2019, Trump expressed a willingness to back Brazil's entry into the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and possibly even the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - both exclusive clubs reserved for some of the wealthiest and most influential countries in the world. In October, the Trump administration opted not to formally support Brazil's bid to join the OECD, while Bolsonaro unilaterally dropped the visa requirement for tourists traveling to Brazil from the United States (and Australia, Canada, and Japan). [Extracted from the article]
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