WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump will host Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva on Thursday for talks about shared economic and security issues, a White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity about a meeting that has not been officially announced.<\/p>\n
The leftist Lula and Trump have had an up-and-down relationship since the U.S. leader\u2019s return to the White House last year.<\/p>\n
Trump hit Brazil with steep tariffs and has pressed Brazilian authorities over their prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro for his involvement in a coup plot.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration imposed a 40% tariff on Brazilian products in July on top of a 10% tariff hike earlier. The U.S. president justified the tariffs by saying that Brazil\u2019s policies and criminal prosecution of Bolsonaro constituted an economic emergency.<\/p>\n
But Trump later loosened tariffs on Brazil as part of his effort to lower consumer costs for Americans.<\/p>\n
Trump and Lula started mending fences at the United Nations\u2019 General Assembly in September, which was followed by their first private meeting in Malaysia in October and subsequent phone conversations.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro was accused of masterminding a plot to stay in power despite his 2022 election loss to Lula \u2014 similar charges to what Trump faced after a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021 to stop Democrat Joe Biden from taking the White House.<\/p>\n
Last month, Lula came to the defense of Pope Leo XIV during a tense exchange of attacks between the pontiff and Trump over the war in Iran.<\/p>\n
The 80-year-old Lula is running for reelection in October.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian paper O Globo first reported the planned trip by the Brazilian leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump will host Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva on Thursday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11138,32533,145,31231,103428,24423,103427,23681,59373,35762,59371,59372,61260,61262,82,84,83,103426],"class_list":["post-280522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-brazil","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-jair-bolsonaro","tag-joe-biden","tag-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-32510-ap-online-general-election-news","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-trump-brazil-lula-bolsonaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}