Brazil’s Economic Uptick Is Boosting Lula’s Foreign Policy
Good news at home is freeing up the president to engage abroad, with success at an Amazon summit but enduring controversy elsewhere.
SÃO PAULO—During the first months of his third presidential term, Lula's domestic challenges—including an armed insurrection in Brasília, public infighting inside his unwieldy governing coalition and the president's tense relationships with the heads of the lower house of Congress and the central bank—suggested that he would not be able to sustain his frequent international travels and his habit of regularly seeking to engage, often in a controversial fashion, on geopolitical issues such as the war in Ukraine and the political situation in Venezuela. After all, one of the key...
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