Brazil’s incumbent president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has won re-election for a fourth non-consecutive term in Sunday’s run-off against his far-right rival, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro and a member of the Liberal Party. The victory could prove consequential for the survival of democracy at home and the rejuvenation of what remains of the continent’s battered left and anti-imperialist forces around the world.

The spectacular triumph for their leader of more than two decades was also a repudiation of US President Donald Trump’s meddling. It was secured through the efforts of hundreds of thousands of cadres of the President’s Workers’ Party. A victory in the run-off appeared improbable when the octogenarian Lula lost the first........

© Free Press Journal