Lula & Trump: When Birds of Different Feathers Must Flock Together for the Stability of the Hemisphere

[...]even if Jair Bolsonaro gets support from the White House, which may threaten the Lula government with sanctions and tariffs, the recent attack against the Brazilian Suprème Court by one of Bolsonaro's "coreligionists" must have sealed his fate. [...]Lula da Silva and Xi Jinping are old school in ideological terms, as both see the "free market system" as a means towards socialism. Furthermore, even before he comes to power, Donald Trump is already raising issues with some of his closest neighbors south of the border, Mexico in particular, These important US alliances with Latin American countries, and especially with Brazil and Mexico, are fundamental to the stability of the hemisphere but may be slipping through the fingers of the powers that be in the State Department and White House that insist in maintaining their focus in Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia while ignoring the needs of Latin America.