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Lula wants to create group to block global far-right
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week said that he wants to hold a meeting with “democratic” heads of government and state to discuss strategies to contain the growth of the far-right around the world.
- The idea, he said, has already been pitched to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and French President Emmanuel Macron — and Lula wants to discuss it with other leaders ahead of this year’s United Nations General Assembly in September.
In his words. “If you take South America today, you realize that there was a setback precisely because of the knowledge of the extreme right, the growth of xenophobia, the growth of racism, the persecution of minorities, the social and cultural agenda often with retrograde issues,” Lula told reporters.
- Lula also cited...
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