Lula isn’t a radical leftist or anything but he’s an ostensible anti-imperialist.

ostensible is a bit of an exaggeration given he did stuff like letting the federal police work with the FBI, or letting the US-aligned ukrainian government use our alcântara base

but he certainly wouldn't do egregious shit like directly giving americans that same right, so yea, he's kinda middle of the road which is an improvement over every other government we've had

I wish Brazil had a more legitimate left wing alternative but that doesn’t seem to be the case yet.

i would say the PT today is genuinely harmful for the left and my only reason to vote for them in the presidential election is their willingness to give some crumbs to a working class that is already suffering too much, but that comes at the cost of hurting every chance of building a mass movement in the country

i'm willing to sacrifice my near future so that my south american brothers can have some respite, but it would be a sacrifice nonetheless

that is, unless we're able to build the left first, then maybe we can force the PT's hand like we would with any other neoliberal government