Lula will have to face Trump.

Look again at the image of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu sitting side by side. Now, imagine Elon Musk at the podium making Nazi gestures. These scenes summarize Trump's new term; that is, the White House has become the stage that brings together everything that is worst in humanity. It can be said, therefore, that Lula will have a difficult task on the international stage. To begin with, the Brazilian president is right and maintained consistency in rhetorically confronting Donald Trump regarding his malicious insinuation of removing the Palestinian people from their territory. A sordid scene that went down in history: Trump, with a velvety voice, almost in tears, saying he was concerned about the situation and future of the Palestinians. Cynical! In reality, it is just another lie from the American. Trump, like Zionism, thinks of the "final solution" and wants to sweep the Palestinians from their homeland.

With Donald Trump's re-election, the Monroe Doctrine is explicit and, therefore, the full union of Latin American left-wing political leaders is fundamental. Lula, president of Brazil, enjoys popular respect throughout the region and should lead the organization alongside his colleagues: Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, Yamandú Orsi of Uruguay, Gabriel Boric of Chile, Luis Arce of Bolivia, Gustavo Petro of Colombia and, indispensably, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba. Furthermore, it is necessary that all Latin American integration bodies be reformulated and reinvigorated to block the advance of US imperialism in the region. At this moment, the instruments used by Trump are, above all, economic and electronic means, but when it comes to the US, there is always the possibility of military intervention. 

Latin American nations will have to change their political stance in the face of this new phase of the United States. This is for the best, because with Trump, the illusions have ended and the time has come to see the monster for what it truly is. The interventionist soft power of humanitarian agencies is over, and the game is likely to become tougher. Therefore, it is crucial that the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (still with Bolsonaro-esque nuances) radically change its approach. In other words, the agency must align its work with the history of Uncle Sam's tyrannical interventions in Latin American countries. During his four years in office, Donald Trump will not accept any sovereignty that falls outside his control.

Donald Trump, in his immoral speeches at the White House, displays an arrogant demeanor; he firmly believes he will not be restrained, not even by his country's Supreme Court. In this first month of his presidency, his strategy is to stun the world with his aggressive outbursts and endless decrees to reaffirm his power. But we know that lies have been part of the far-right's strategy since fascism; in thirty days in office, Trump has failed to actually change the complex and macabre situation in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine. It is crucial that Lula and his colleagues in the same political camp see Trump not as a democrat, but as someone who is far from being a bastion of peace.