00:02Following the re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil,
00:07U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the results were rigged and corrupt without providing any evidence.
00:13While Trump had not formally endorsed right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro,
00:18he had publicly supported him as he pledged to join a wave of conservative Latin American leaders cozying up to
00:24Washington.
00:24Well, it looked terrible to me. I thought it was a terrible look.
00:28And I didn't take sides, but it looked like another rigged election, frankly.
00:33I didn't take sides, but it was a terrible look for the world.
00:38It's another election. You know, elections have to be indisputable.
00:44And it looked very bad to me.
00:46I didn't take sides. I didn't endorse anybody or anything.
00:49But I watched the election. It looked so, so corrupt, so terrible.
00:53Bolsonaro initially refused to recognize Lula's victory, saying it was impossible to acknowledge the result
00:59and that the election should have been annulled.
01:02He has since said he would organize the opposition.
01:05Lula's victory bucks a regional trend towards the riots seen in Chile, Colombia and Peru, among others,
01:12limiting Trump's drive to tighten his grip on the Western Hemisphere.
01:15In his campaign, Lula promised Brazil would maintain control over its resources and preserve its freedom to sell beyond the
01:22U.S.,
01:23while also protecting efforts to stop illegal cutting of the Amazon rainforest.
01:27The Americans raised저스테
01:29The Americans next, though, are, from the U.S.,
