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Brazil

Active non-alignment to survive superpower split

What does the Ukraine war have to do with Brazil? On the face of it, perhaps not much. Yet, in his first six months in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – now in his third non-consecutive term – has expended much effort trying to bring peace to the conflict in eastern Europe.

Banned from office

The predicament in which former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro finds himself in after Brazil’s election judges banned him from running for public office for the next eight years is largely of his own making.