>The hotly-anticipated first ever meeting between Biden and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro also almost didn’t happen, with reports that Bolsonaro was also planning to skip the summit.
>For these reasons, Biden was worried that “no one would come to the party,” says Thomas Traumann, a political consultant and head of communications. Washington had in turn dispatched an adviser to convince the far-right leader to attend. Bolsonaro later insisted that Biden had agreed not to raise longstanding points of contention between the two men—including growing deforestation in the Amazon.
>Just two days before Thursday’s meeting, Bolsonaro—a political ally of Donald Trump—once again spread allegations about the legitimacy of Biden’s 2020 election win. Biden didn’t publicly acknowledge the comments, as he was “desperate” to salvage the summit in the wake of Mexico’s snub, Traumann says.
>“The need to get Bolsonaro there made the United States look weak,” says Christopher Sabatini, senior Latin American research fellow at London-based think tank Chatham House. But at a time of waning U.S. influence in Latin America, Sabatini says Biden had few options. “They say war makes strange bedfellows—well, declining U.S. influence has made very uncomfortable bedfellows of Biden and Bolsonaro.”
nobody cares about Biden the country feels like a ghost ship running on auto-pilot
Daniel James
9/11 best day of my life
Ryan Perry
Based
Landon Harris
>implying Latin America except for Brazil is USA's backyard. Everybody knows that Bolsonaro is that edgy hipster who thinks he's smart for having a different opinion compared to its neighboring countries.
Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Argentina, Chile etc. are all great allies of USA and they wouldn't dare piss of the world's strongest superpower.
Luis Ortiz
No one likes being told what do to. The US thinks it has a God-given to rule this continent by command. They know absolutely nothing about Brazil, but keep meddling nevertheless. I dislike China, but their influence is good because it breaks the hegemonic position the US has enjoyed here since 1945.
The fact that Biden allowed Bolsonaro to publically accuse him of stealing the election days before the summit speaks volumes to how weak Biden's/America's position has actually become.
Hunter James
Maybe if the US weren't asshurt some countries in the hemisphere don't wanna be American cocksleaves they'd get more participation
Logan Murphy
Nope, Bolsonaro is a Trump-cuck that would had literally sold the country off to the US if he was still in power.
Jose Martinez
>Mexico >wouldn't dare piss of the world's strongest superpower Mexico boycotted the summit.
Can’t we just kill their leaders and install new ones?
William Cruz
it's over...
Evan Green
No bitch, the world is starting to deglobalize and the last thing we need shit hitting the fan in this hemisphere.
Jack Reed
>I dislike China, but their influence is good So will you guys finally stop riding our dicks and ride China’s instead now
Brandon Morris
You can't really pinpoint that, popular rates here are always wrong because the researchers doesn't really go after everyone. But i believe it's pretty low, specially because of the prices inflation and his shit-tier way of dealing with covid.
The fact is politically he's isolated, because he fucked up a lot inside politics and many important allies of him jumped ship long ago.
David Gray
80% of Mexican trade comes from the United States
Your country is 100% likely to collapse after Ukraine.
Jack Phillips
Sounds based though. Poop skins need to be kept in line.
The US is given the god given right as it isn’t poor brown and stupid.
