Lula’s Re-election Victory in Brazil and Its Wider Impact

Absolutely massive victory out of Brazil.

President Lula da Silva winning re-election against Flavio Bolsonaro,

beating not

just the right in Brazil, but the right across the hemisphere from

the

United States all the way to Ecuador, to, uh, neighboring

Argentina, um, to El Salvador, and a, a fight

against the broader growing authoritarian and fascistic

tendencies in different countries surrounding one

of the biggest economies in the Americas.

Lula has been a thumb in the eye of Trumpism and,

uh, the demand that Brazil, uh, bow its entire

economy to the wills and the whims of

Trump's cronies. Um, the Bolsonaros were promising that.

They were promising prosperity through bribery and corruption,

and the people didn't buy it. So this is a huge

victory if you care about stopping fascism in the

Western hemisphere and the world.

It's a huge victory if you care about climate change

and the role that

the Amazon plays as the lungs of the world

in cooling our hemisphere, in creating rain clouds, uh, in

biodiversity. It's a huge victory for a worker's party.

Uh, and now of course the challenge is to deliver,

the challenge is to make sure that there are, that we, they defeat the

right in future elections 'cause you know the Bolsonaros aren't going away.

But today, just a hats off to Brazil because so many

countries have not been able to buck this trend.

So many countries have buckled under the pressure of fascists like

Donald Trump, uh, and Marco Rubio.

And so Bora Lula, I'm so happy, I'm

so proud. This is really, really critical. Such a critical win.