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A Brief History of U.S. Interference in Brazilian Politics
On October 4, Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly defeated incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by two points, 47% to 45%, in the first round of Brazil’s election, forcing a runoff to be held on October 25. It was a shockingly strong performance by Bolsonaro in an election that Mark Weisbrot, a Latin America expert and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, told me “should never have been so close.”
Abin, Brazil’s intelligence agency, and a small group of Democratic senators in the United States have accused the Trump administration of election interference. Abin has…
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