Marxists ‘Took Over the USAID Bureaucracy’: Waller on Brazil Elections

Sunday’s elections in Brazil did not go as expected, with 45-year-old conservative Flavio Bolsonaro winning just shy of 48 percent of the vote against incumbent President Lula da Silva, who was just a few points behind. Will Brazil follow the trend in Latin America’s swing towards more conservative leadership? NTD discussed with a panel including Marcos Schotgues, the editor-in-chief of The Epoch Times Brazil—he’s also the Latin America correspondent for the paper’s U.S. edition—and J. Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy, and former CIA operative.