The United States and Brazil can work together to address the economic effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on energy supply and food production, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald in an exclusive interview Friday following her trip to Brazil this week.
The visit highlights the Biden administration’s efforts to develop a relationship with the country’s recently elected left-leaning president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with appeals for “a workers-centered trade policy” and environmental sustainability.
Presidents Joe Biden and Lula defeated right-wing populist presidents whose supporters then stormed the countries’ respective congressional buildings. Lula won over the former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro — an ally of former President Donald Trump — with a razor-thin margin in one of the most polarized elections in the country’s history last October.
