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Home / Western Hemisphere / What Donald Trump should do now that his Brazilian ally has been defeated
Western Hemisphere

November 3, 2026

What Donald Trump should do now that his Brazilian ally has been defeated

By Daniel DePetris

On Oct. 25, President Donald Trump saw his string of consecutive election victories in Latin America broken. After what looked to be a resounding win for Trump’s ally, far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, in the first round of voting for Brazilian president, incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a stunning comeback to win his fourth term in office. Lula, who has been a mainstay of Brazilian politics since the 1980s, won by more than 3 percentage points.

 

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