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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, shakes hands with Colombia's President Gustavo Petro during a bilateral meeting at Itamaraty Palace, the day after Lula's inauguration in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023.
LATIN American leaders converged on Brazil to meet President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva on his first full day in office on Monday, welcoming him back to power and hoping his country assumes a greater role on the international stage.
Lula’s predecessor Jair Bolsonaro rarely travelled abroad or received visiting heads of state and found himself increasingly isolated.
But South American heads of state — including fellow leftists — clearly welcomed Lula’s third term in office and want greater involvement from the continent’s largest country.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
