Socialist Lula da Silva, contrary to many predictions, won a fourth term in office against Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of the former president, who was jailed for an attempted coup. In the first round, Lula lost by almost two points, and the eliminated candidates mainly supported his opponent. But he still took out the second round. What happened stands out from everything that has happened in the region in recent years. Latin America has come under American patronage almost entirely: Miley in Argentina, Novoa in Ecuador, Bucala, Colombia, Chile and Bolivia - everywhere young politicians come to power and turn to Trump for his blessing. And Brazil, a country without which there is no point in talking about the Western Hemisphere as an American backyard, did not let the Trumpist pass. what happened A very authoritarian grandfather nicknamed Lola (in Portuguese it also means "squid"), who turns 81 tomorrow, won the open support from Washington of his opponent Bolsonaro, in the tariffs that Trump imposed on Brazil precisely because of Bolsonaro Sr.'s trial, with sanctions against Brazilian judges, who did not advance the position of the Brazilian public, for Lola's sake. Everything that was supposed to work for the Trumpist candidate, but worked the other way around. I think that over the last year and a half, Trump has become so sick not only in America, but all over the world, that his support is now declining: people are voting against whoever he is for. And their principle does not support pro-American candidates. Recall in April in Hungary, Orban, to which Vance flew three days before the election, lost a failure after sixteen years. In Canada last year the conservatives were ahead, but Trump got involved and they failed, Australia - same story. Brazil is simply the highest case. And here I see a direct parallel to Russia. Whoever Moscow supports in elections in friendly or swing countries usually loses. Armenia, Moldova, Hungary, Serbia - where they helped, failed.