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Did you hear the news?!

The results of Brazil’s presidential runoff election have been announced,
and it’s official: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has defeated far-right
incumbent Jair Bolsonaro with more than 60 million votes, the most in
Brazil’s history.

This is a stunning victory for the global fight against facism.

Bolsonaro had received an endorsement from President Trump. His time in
office was marked by militarization, deforestation, violence towards
indigenous populations, and a bigoted and racist rhetoric.^1

Lula da Silva previously served two terms as President between 2003 -
2010. During this time, he expanded innovative social programs such as the
Bolsa Familia, which provided direct cash transfers to low-income
families, allowing and incentivizing parents to send their children to
school rather than to work.^2 Bolsa Familia soon became the largest
reaching conditional cash transfer program in the world, estimated to have
benefitted 11.1 million families (46 million people!).^3 Lula plans to
improve and expand upon such social programs in his new term.

Lula’s upcoming term in office holds promises for the environment. Brazil
is home to just over 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest. Under
Bolsonaro’s presidency, primary forest loss in Brazil skyrocketed — losing
more than 8.4 million acres from August 2019 - July 2021^4, and accounting
for over 40 percent of global forest loss in 2021^5. Lula da Silva’s
commitment to curbing deforestation and nurturing Brazil’s biodiversity
could be a model for global climate leadership working to constrain
climate change.

Here in the U.S., we can learn a lot from this intervention on
authoritarianism: the Brazilian people set a mandate for better conditions
for workers, their families, and for the environment. Lula’s victory — as
well as recent wins for progressive politicians in Chile, Argentina, and
Colombia — gives us hope that the left can, and will, respond to this
alarming rightward trend in global politics.

Lincon Zarbietti/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

In solidarity,

Team AOC

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1 - [ [link removed] ]Monitor Racism

2 - [ [link removed] ]Time

3 - [ [link removed] ]Center for Public Impact

4 - [ [link removed] ]Vox

5 - [ [link removed] ]World Resources Institute


 

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