FLOP: Without Russia’s Putin and China’s XI, the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro Is Emptied, Reflecting Brazil’s Lula da Silva Disastrous Foreign Policy

A few days ago, British magazine The Economist ran a piece called: ‘Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home’, highlighting how Lula da Silva’s foreign policy is all wrong, and how he has become a very unpopular figurehead inside Brazil.