Three months after his election to the presidency and about a month after his inauguration, Brazil’s new president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, travels to Washington today, where he is expected to meet with his US counterpart, Joe Biden. His mission will be to lay the foundations for the resumption of relations between the two countries, which have gone through a difficult period in recent years under Bolsonaro.

Biden and Lula have a lot in common. Both “hate” their predecessors, Trump and Bolsonaro, while both are shown to prioritize the issue of climate change. Lula has put the environment at the center of his agenda and will try to convince Biden to join the Amazon Rainforest Fund, Gzero reports in its analysis.

However, Biden and Lula disagree on the Ukraine issue, in which the Brazilian leadership preferred to maintain a more “neutral” position, seemingly “equidistant” between Russia and Ukraine, but actually staying closer to Moscow than Kiev. .

Lula proposed the creation of a “Peace Club” with the participation of China, the purpose of which would be to end the war in Ukraine. However, it is expected that this proposal will not be warmly received by the American side.

Otherwise, they are expected to cast a shadow over today’s talks in Washington: question China (which, to the displeasure of Washington, is Brazil’s largest trade and investment partner), but also about the fate of the ex-president of Brazil, Bolsonaro, who has now found “sanctuary” in southern Florida and is not returning to Brazil, so as not to be held accountable as ” instigator” of the events of the 6th January.

According to Gzero