Brazil Heads to the Polls

“Brazilians cast their ballots Sunday in what political scientists see as the country’s most consequential election in decades—a choice between President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, that will have widespread implications for Latin America’s biggest economy and the Amazon rainforest,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

New York Times: “The choice for Brazilians is whether to give President Jair Bolsonaro a second term, emboldening and empowering him to carry out a far-right mandate for the nation, or whether to bring back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and return Brazil to a leftist track.”

“Yet the stakes are far higher than simply a contest between the left and the right.”