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Lula Re-elected in Brazil, Halting Rightward Trend in Latin America
Americas

Lula Re-elected in Brazil, Halting Rightward Trend in Latin America

The result limits U.S. influence in the region’s largest economy, a key counterweight to Washington. Lula’s win, analysts said, complicates U.S. plans to recruit Brazil into a hard-line security alliance and gain access to its mineral resources. “Lula is pragmatic enough to work out some kind of modus operandi with the Trump administration,” said Will Freeman, a Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Serbia’s Vucic Concedes Election to Student-Led Movement
Elections

Serbia’s Vucic Concedes Election to Student-Led Movement

Serbia’s long-serving leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat on Sunday to a student-led opposition movement in a snap parliamentary election that marked a seismic political shift. Vucic, whose Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) had dominated Serbian politics for 14 years, said his opponents in the Students’ List were projected to win between 135 and 140 of the 250 parliamentary seats. “The Students’ List has won,” Vucic said at his party’s election night event, though he blamed “independent media,” “unnamed European countries,” and an “American deep state” for the loss.

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