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The banker, the film, and the scandal that threatens FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro’s candidacy

Senator FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and a hopeful presidential contender in a few months, fired his marketing chief last week. He has been maneuvering for days to desperately obtain a photograph that, he believes, could pull him out of the crisis that has shaken his campaign.

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Senator FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro, at a political event in BrasΓ­lia last week.

Lula: β€˜We cannot accept the way the United States has treated Brazil this week’

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Brazil’s relationship with the United States has swung up and down like a roller coaster. It has been improving slowly and only through intense Brazilian diplomacy, but at any moment it can deteriorate rapidly again with a new blow from Washington. β€œWe cannot accept the way the United States has treated Brazil this week,” President Luiz InΓ‘cio Lula da Silva declared on Wednesday at a cabinet meeting in BrasΓ­lia. Lula was referring to the Trump administration’s threat to impose new tariffs days after the U.S. designated two Brazilian criminal gangs as terrorist organizations. The left-wing president has again wrapped himself in the national flag and accused the Bolsonaros β€” former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro and his son, the senator FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro β€” of being traitors to the homeland for encouraging Trump’s interference.

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President Lula at Wednesday’s cabinet meeting in BrasΓ­lia.
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