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Bolsonaro: Closer US-Brazil ties unlikely after 'Trump of the Tropics' meets Biden
Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, has questioned the validity of the US leader's victory.
Politics
After several months of uncertainty as to whether Jair Bolsonaro would be attending the Summit of the Americas, a bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the summit clinched the deal for Brazil's president to show up at the conference in Los Angeles.
It is safe to say that sparks did not really fly at "hello" - after all, Mr Bolsonaro was one of the last heads of state to congratulate Biden on his 2020 win.
And just this week he repeated a refrain casting doubt on the US election results, echoing Donald Trump's unfounded claim that there was widespread fraud.
The Brazilian and US leaders played it diplomatically for the cameras on Thursday, with Mr Biden calling Brazil "a wonderful place with magnificent people" that he had been lucky to visit several times.
Mr Bolsonaro, for his part, assured reporters that Brazil has "a huge interest in getting closer and closer to the US".
"At times, we've distanced ourselves due to issues of ideology. But I'm sure that since our arrival in the Brazilian government we've never had greater opportunities because of the affinities that our governments have," he said.
But the closely-watched meeting did not hide the frictions beneath.
Dubbed the 'Trump of the Tropics', Mr Bolsonaro is a big fan of the former US president.
And just like Mr Trump, Brazil's president has said that he too might not accept the results of his country's elections in October unless the electronic voting system is changed to printed ballots.