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But if the US’s idea is to help far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who pledges his allegiance to Trump, the plan could backfire.
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As Brasília was still gauging the fallout from the US Trade Representative's call for 25% tariffs on many Brazilian exports — over what Washington calls “unfair trade practices” — the office dropped another bombshell:
held a positive meeting with Donald Trump only weeks ago.
Brasília fears that one of its long-standing anxieties has become a reality: that Washington intends to influence the result of October’s presidential election.
Quel honneur de voir mes analyses publiées par l'Institut Montaigne (@i_montaigne).
En France, l'Institut Montaigne est une référence de la production d'intelligence : un lieu où l'analyse rigoureuse éclaire le débat public et où les idées se confrontent aux faits.
Mon sujet : le Brésil au cœur de plusieurs grandes questions géopolitiques. Des terres rares qui redessinent les chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales aux ingérences de Donald Trump en Amérique latine, comprendre le Brésil, c'est lire une partie du monde qui s'écrit aujourd'hui.
It is the slow-burning, lawyerly version of the blunt 50% tariff Trump imposed in July 2025 (many exceptions were added afterward, and the US Supreme Court ruled against many of Trump's tariffs in February 2026).
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Last Thursday, the US govt designated Brazil's largest crime syndicates as terrorist organizations, in a move that has unsettled the Brazilian financial system. Four days later, the other shoe dropped: the US Trade Representative proposed a 25% tariff on most Brazilian exports.
For more than a year, one scenario sat near the top of the Lula government's risk map: that Washington would brand Brazil's two largest crime syndicates as terrorists. On May 28, it materialized.
Mexico is a cautionary tale. Corporate Compliance Insights reports that, after Washington designated its cartels as terrorist groups early last year, a June order pushed three Mexican financial institutions out of business; logistics costs rose an estimated...