Brazil successfully hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2014 World Cup, and the 2013 World Youth Day. Brazil is known for its spectacular beaches, such as its world-renowned Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil is currently led by the [[conservative]] president [[Jair Bolsonaro]]. His foreign minister is the anti-[[Marxist]] conservative [[Ernesto Araújo]]. However, in elections in October 2022, Bolsonaro was narrowly defeated by Lula da Silva, the leftist former president and an ex-convict.
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