Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc
Brazilians are heading to the polls in a tight race between incumbent leftist President Lula da Silva and far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro. The election is viewed as a critical test for the growing pro-Trump right-wing bloc in Latin America, which has recently dominated regional politics. A victory for Bolsonaro would significantly strengthen the far-right agenda and align Brazil more closely with US foreign policy interests.
- ▪Donald Trump has claimed that right-wing candidates have won all seven presidential elections in Latin America since the start of his second term.
- ▪Polls indicate a neck-and-neck race between 80-year-old incumbent Lula da Silva and 45-year-old far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
- ▪Flávio Bolsonaro has pledged to join the Shield of the Americas coalition and adopt an iron fist approach to crime, whereas Lula has criticized the coalition as undermining sovereignty.
- ▪Analysts suggest that Brazil is currently the last major Latin American country capable of resisting US influence, making the election outcome pivotal for regional autonomy.
- ▪The US takeover of Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro have left only six Latin American countries under left-wing governments.
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a candidate for re-election for the Workers' party, attends a rally in São Gonçalo, Brazil. Photograph: Tita Barros/ReutersSunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup ‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of election By Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro Sat 3 Oct 2026 03.00 EDTLast modified on Sat 3 Oct 2026 03.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleShortly after his controversial speech to the United Nations general assembly in September, Donald Trump gathered a dozen like-minded Latin American leaders and boasted that rightwing candidates had won all seven presidential elections held in the region since he began his second…
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