‘Brazil is no one’s backyard’: Lula takes bold dig at US influence after election victory
Brazil’s electoral court declared Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of a fourth, non-consecutive presidential term, with nearly 52% of the vote and a lead of about 4.4 million over Flávio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro rejected the result and called for annulment. Lula criticized foreign influence and US trade policies; several world leaders congratulated him, while Trump had not commented.