Brazil has had a complicated relationship with the United States throughout its history. The American Revolution inspired Brazil’s own Independence, and Brasilia was a reliable ally throughout both world wars and the Cold War.

In recent times, U.S. rhetoric and exceptionalism have given rise to paranoia about Brazil’s natural resources, namely a fear of U.S. coveting the Amazon and Brazil’s offshore hydrocarbon exploration. This paranoia mostly originates from the Left, but also resonates with parts of the Right.

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Because Brazil is a founding member of the BRICS forum and was committed to the partnership in both the Lula and Bolsonaro governments, it is important to ascertain what America’s Operation Absolute Resolve to capture Nicolas Maduro means for Brazil and how it is perceived by the tropical nation.

Marcelo Rabello from the Veritas Liberat project in Lisbon believes that the Venezuelan leadership would certainly seek asylum in Brazil and that the Lula government would probably use such a card as leverage against Magnitsky Act-based sanctions targeting the Brazilian regime, particularly those against the corrupt judge Alexandre de Moraes. Eduardo........

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