The official agenda for Tuesday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro revolves around economic cooperation and the toppling of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro
The official agenda for Tuesday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro revolves around economic cooperation and the toppling of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.Unofficially, the visit marks a milestone for what some see as an emerging new world order of strongmen backed by right-wing insurgencies. Supporters of both presidents are using the occasion to stitch together the populist movements that propelled each man into office.
But the like-minded love fest began days earlier. On Saturday, Bolsonaro’s youngest son, Eduardo, a member of Brazil’s congress, exchanged compliments with Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon in the basement of the Trump Hotel, then showed up in the lobby with a green hat that declared, “Make Brazil Great Again.” The occasion was an intimate screening of a documentary about Olavo de Carvalho, a right-wing Brazilian intellectual considered the new president’s “guru.
Sunday’s dinner featured Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Russell Mead, former acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Dave Shedd, Roger Kimball, publisher of the conservative literary magazine the New Criterion, and Chris Buskirk, publisher of the nationalist journal American Greatness.
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