Brazil's Lula Heads to the White House
Brazil's Lula Heads to the White House
“Even though these are two leaders with a lot in common, their underlying world views and national interests are quite different, and Ukraine is a big one,” said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The New York Times.
It took 505 days for President Biden to even talk to former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, a far-right leader who had questioned the legitimacy of Mr. Biden’s election.
It will take Mr. Biden just more than a month to welcome to the White House Mr. Bolsonaro’s successor, Brazil’s new leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Mr. Lula is scheduled to meet with Mr. Biden in the Oval Office on Friday for a wide-ranging conversation that both sides have framed as a renewal of the relationship between the two largest countries in the Western Hemisphere. […]
“Even though these are two leaders with a lot in common, their underlying world views and national interests are quite different, and Ukraine is a big one,” said Brian Winter, a writer and analyst who tracks Latin America for the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, a group that pushes free trade in the Americas. “Primarily because of that issue, I do think there’s potential for both sides to walk away from this meeting with a somewhat sour taste.”…
