Undermining its unique role as a peace broker in the region, the Brazilian government chose to welcome the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the border state of Roraima, where the top diplomats of Brazil and the United States unleashed a series of rants against Venezuela. The political stunt — part of Bolsonaro’s electoral strategy of placing foreign affairs as a battle in his cultural war against communism — is the latest blow, not only to Brazil’s ambitions of global leadership, but to the very agenda of overcoming authoritarianism in Venezuela.
Pedro Vormittag 