Biden to Greet Brazil's Lula at the White House
Biden to Greet Brazil's Lula at the White House
"It’s low-hanging fruit for Biden while Lula needs all the help he can get," said AS/COA's Cecilia Tornaghi on efforts to save the Amazon to the Los Angeles Times.
President Biden on Friday hosts the new leader of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and each man is hoping for a boost from the other as they try to put their countries’ previous administrations behind them.
Biden and Lula, as the Brazilian is known, defeated populists with authoritarian tendencies in their presidential elections, with both losing candidates—Donald Trump here and Jair Bolsonaro there—refusing to recognize their rival’s victory. […]
The other major issue for the two presidents is “wrestling back the Amazon from organized crime,” said Cecilia Tornaghi, Senior Director for Policy at Americas Society in New York. Biden can make a big statement about one of his principal policy goals, working on the environment, without much opposition since saving the Amazon is a much more broadly accepted aim in the climate movement.
“It’s low-hanging fruit for Biden while Lula needs all the help he can get,” she said from Brazil. […]
