{"id":61994,"date":"2026-10-03T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-has-brazil-accused-the-us-of-election-interference\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:47:43","slug":"why-has-brazil-accused-the-us-of-election-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-has-brazil-accused-the-us-of-election-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has Brazil accused the US of election interference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Brazil\u2019s upcoming presidential election, President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva is facing right-wing challenger and ally of Donald Trump, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Washington has backed closer ties with Brazil\u2019s right wing, while Lula da Silva has accused Bolsonaro\u2019s camp of encouraging foreign interference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The election has raised questions about US influence, trade tariffs, organised crime and Brazil\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Ione Wells explains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c3eweld0nddeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brazil\u2019s upcoming presidential election, President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva is facing right-wing challenger and ally of Donald Trump, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Washington has backed closer ties with Brazil\u2019s right wing, while Lula da Silva has accused Bolsonaro\u2019s camp of encouraging foreign interference. The election has raised questions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61996,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61994\/revisions\/61996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}