Alexander Main

But we begin our program this evening by welcoming to our show Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

Alex has, has joined us before and, uh, has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Foreign Policy Magazine, the LA Times, Dissent, and Le Monde diplomatique.

Alexander, appreciate you making time this evening to talk about, uh, the recent, uh, Brazilian or the first round of the recent Brazilian election.

Let me reintroduce you to our listeners.

This is Counterpoint.

I'm Scott Harris, and we're speaking this evening with Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.

And we're talking about the results of, uh, Brazil's first round election where, um, uh, Jair Bolsonaro's son, Flávio Bolsonaro, came in first in the...

in, in that first round election.

So that's all coming up tonight.

But we begin our program this evening by welcoming to our show Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., Alex has joined us before and has written for many publications, including the New York Times, Foreign Policy Magazine, the L.A. Times, Dissent and Le Monde Diplomatique.

Alexander, appreciate you making time this evening to talk about the recent Brazilian or the first round of the recent Brazilian election.

Yeah, great to be with you again, Scott.

Let me reintroduce you to our listeners.

This is CounterPoint.

I'm Scott Harris, and we're speaking this evening with Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.

And we're talking about the results of Brazil's first round election where Jair Bolsonaro's son, Flavio Bolsonaro, came in first in that first round election.

The upcoming election in Brazil is really going to be extremely consequential for the entire region.

Alexander Main is the director of international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Brazil is the country with the largest economy, biggest population in Latin America.

And it's also one of the few countries that is still holding out against U.S. pressure, pressure to align with the Trump administration's agenda in the region.