Brazil's election shows the 'Donroe Doctrine' is a mirage

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s come-from-behind victory in the Brazilian election, to borrow a phrase, is not the end of the Donroe Doctrine, but it marks the end of the Donroe Doctrine’s beginning. For the first time since the second Trump administration began, Washington’s preferred election outcome in a Latin American country has not come to pass. Lula’s victory comes despite a determined U.S. government effort to shape the result in favor of Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who fled Brazil after the vote and is now in exile in the United States. Presiden