'Tropical Trump': Where will Brazil's Bolsonaro stand with Biden?
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made a show of his admiration for and close ties to US President Donald Trump. What happens when Joe Biden takes over?
Weeks after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the United States election, Bolsonaro (left) still has not recognised Biden's victory [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]
Monica Yanakiew
27 Nov 2020
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – It takes two to tango, the saying goes, and over the past two years, United States President Donald Trump has found his ideal partner in Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
The leader of Latin America’s largest economy, Bolsonaro followed Trump’s lead almost step by step even when it did not serve his country’s best interests, earning him the moniker “Tropical Trump”.
So when Trump leaves the White House in January and his successor, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, takes over US environmental and foreign policy, where will Bolsonaro stand?
“He’ll stand alone, since he lost his role model and his only strong ally in the world,” former Brazilian ambassador to the US Rubens Ricupero told Al Jazeera. “Bolsonaro has a bad relationship with the European Union, with France, with Germany and with China. And he started off his relationship with US President-elect Joe Biden on the wrong foot.”
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