Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro presents President Donald Trump with a Brazilian national team soccer jersey in the Oval Office of the White House, March 19, 2019, in Washington. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
1 / 5President Donald Trump welcomes Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro to the White House on March 19, 2019President Donald Trump welcomes Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro to the White House on March 19, 2019 Washington - President Donald Trump praised what he said are the best ever US-Brazilian relations as he greeted right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro -- the so-called Trump of the Tropics -- in the White House on Tuesday.
"This is a potentially historic opportunity to redirect relations between our two countries, the two largest democracies in the western hemisphere," Trump's national security advisor John Bolton told reporters. Since his 2018 election, Bolsonaro has worn his nickname"Trump of the Tropics" with pride. Such are the similarities that Bolton now jokes Trump, elected in 2016, should be dubbed"the Bolsonaro of North America."Washington had strained relations with Brazil's long string of leftist governments but the rise of Bolsonaro, a former paratrooper who talks enthusiastically of combating socialism and killing street criminals, has opened a new door for the Trump administration.
It could also have large-scale implications for the future of efforts to slow or reverse global warming: Brazil is home to much of the threatened Amazon rainforest and Bolsonaro, like Trump, is a climate change skeptic. Bolsonaro held private talks in the Oval Office with Trump before a joint appearance at a press conference in the Rose Garden.
Brazil is also seeking closer military relations with the United States through what's called Major Non-NATO ally status, which gives preferential access to the purchase of US military equipment and technology.
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