Brazil is taking a new direction after Bolsonaro – but will Britain take note? | Richard Bourne

Much has changed already under Lula da Silva’s presidency, but this vast country does not receive the attention it deservesBritish interest in Latin America, and its biggest country, Brazil, has been disgracefully fitful. It woke up when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly beat Jair Bolsonaro, the disastrous tree-felling extreme rightist, last October. It even caused the BBC to lead its morning news bulletin in January, when a mob inspired by Bolsonaro and the example of the Capitol