Experts see Washington drawing new map, and the president’s frustration with Brasilia and New Delhi has put its contours into sharper relief
As eight Brazilian senators settled into their seats on a flight to Washington on a dry winter evening last month, a single question overshadowed the deep political differences that separated some of them: could they stop the Americans from imposing a tariff that threatened to gut their country’s vital export revenues?
They had begun to feel a sense of urgency weeks earlier, forcing them to put aside a stand-off between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and former president Jair Bolsonaro that has reverberated beyond the country’s borders.
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