Brazil: Bolsonaro, Lula trade blows ahead of election

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his main rival, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, traded blows on Monday ahead of the upcoming presidential election in October.

Although they didn’t debate face-to-face, the two politicians each gave landmark interviews where Bolsonaro’s unfounded claims of electoral fraud were a key point of contention.

Bolsonaro continues to sow doubt

During a 40-minute interview on Journal Nacional, an evening news program that has the highest ratings in…