The coddling of Brazil’s increasingly dictatorial president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, by the Biden administration and its allies in Congress has gone from baffling to damaging to U.S. national interests.
Lula is an enemy of the United States, one itching to increase China’s presence in the hemisphere.
What gives?
“They see Bolsonaro as [Donald] Trump south of the border,” a congressional staffer told me, referring to Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president and Lula’s opponent in 2022’s election.
Presidents Bolsonaro and Trump share similar personalities and did indeed strike a close partnership while the two men led the two most populous democracies in the Americas.
But is that grounds to subvert American interests?
The latest move that let Lula’s growing authoritarian rule off the hook came this month when the House of Representatives’…
