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Diplomatic friction between Washington and Brasilia has produced an unlikely political opening. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is seeking an alliance with Donald Trump even as ongoing tensions with U.S.
Senator Marco Rubio strain the bilateral relationship from a different direction. The alliance is, by any conventional reading, an unlikely one.
The two leaders are political opposites, which makes the overture notable as a piece of statecraft rather than natural alignment.
What Brasilia appears to be doing is reaching past the friction with Rubio to find a more direct channel to US decision-making. The Rubio tensions are the context that gives this move its shape.
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