Elections in Brazil entered their final phase on Friday. With just under a month to go, former socialist president Lula da Silva leads all polls. However, conservative-religious Jair Bolsonaro, the current president, continues to narrow the gap.
However, given Brazil’s growing global importance as a food and commodity exporter and as Latin America’s dominant economic power with the largest military in the region and a founding member of BRICS that is neutral towards Russia, global geopolitical interest(s) in this election they are powerful and they are clashing.
And even more so since Jair Bolsonaro. . .
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