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Carrie Kahn

Biden and Brazil's Lula find common ground against violent extremism

President Joe Biden and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Oval Office of the White House. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Joe Biden and Brazil's new leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have a lot in common these days. "Both our democracies have been tested of late," said Biden during a sit-down in the Oval Office.

It was just over a month ago that hundreds of extremists stormed Brazil's capital. Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential offices.

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