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Over the past 18 months, 7 far-right candidates have won presidential elections in Latin America. In most of them, Trump backed the winning candidate.
This weekend he hopes to add the greatest prize of all: Brazil. If he succeeds, he will use Brazil to dominate the entire South American continent.
theguardian.com
Trump wants control of South America. If Bolsonaro Jr wins in Brazil, that could become a reality | Steve Bloomfield
The US president has taken credit for far-right victories across Latin America, but those wins have had more to do with fears of gang crime than his meddling, says journalist Steve Bloomfield