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Manila Bulletin
President Lula da Silva is visiting the United States for the first time since being elected as Brazil’s president. “Both our nations’ strong democracies have been tested,” Biden told Lula, and “both in the United States and Brazil, democracy prevailed.”Meeting in the Oval Office, Biden and Lula expressed solidarity over their similar paths. In Brazil, Lula defeated right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and took office this January, but a mob of Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings shortly after. “We have some issues on which we can work together,” Lula told Biden. “The first thing is to stop the war.”In a sign of rekindled chemistry between the two leaders, Lula invited Biden to visit Brazil, the joint statement said, “and President Biden accepted the invitation.”
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