Final week, Brazilian Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro spoke on the Conservative Political Motion Convention, often called CPAC, in Texas. The son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and the main right-wing candidate in October’s presidential election towards President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro portrayed the upcoming contest as a referendum on U.S.-Brazil relations. It’s a daring, dangerous technique that he believes may ship him the election, whilst his opponents see it enjoying proper into the arms of Lula’s reelection marketing campaign.
In his CPAC speech, Bolsonaro performed up his household’s private relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and famous the parallels between U.S. and Brazilian politics lately. He defended his father—who’s at the moment serving a jail sentence for plotting a coup try after shedding the 2022 election to Lula—as being unjustly persecuted in the identical method that Trump claimed to have been following the U.S. Capitol rebellion on Jan. 6, 2021.
This narrative, that left-wing governments use “lawfare” to assault right-wing politicians they’ll’t in any other case beat on the polls, performs nicely at CPAC, which began as a U.S. political group however has more and more expanded its affect in different elements of the world, together with Latin America. Lots of the area’s right-wing presidents have spoken at CPAC-hosted occasions lately, and their grievances towards persecution and a “deep state” that stops them from fulfilling their agendas is a standard theme.
