Much of Latin America’s Left Has a Blind Spot: The Environment
As center-left leaders in Europe and the U.S. prioritize the fight against climate change, the same cannot be said of their Latin American peers.
SÃO PAULO – When former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made his much-awaited first speech as a de facto 2022 candidate last week, he cleverly projected himself as the exact opposite of Jair Bolsonaro: statesmanlike, centrist, pro-science and well-connected across the world. The former president also lambasted Bolsonaro's mishandling of the pandemic, the economy and his controversial foreign policy, describing the former army captain as both divisive and incompetent. Yet while Lula seemed to criticize every single one of Bolsonaro's policies, one topic was conspicuously absent:...
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