welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, election day in america is almost upon us. we are going to bring it. at stake, control of congress. it s a choice. between two vastly different visions for america. will the democrats lose their slim majority? i will talk to bill maher about what tuesday s results will mean for the next two years. then the u.n. s annual climate conference began today in egypt. a damning new report tells us the world won t come close to meeting its temperature target for the end of the century. but in all the gloom, there is some good news about climate action. i will talk to an expert. and left wing populism beat out right wing populism in brazil last week, but can lula succeed in getting the economy to grow and bringing the country back together when he comes to power? we ll explore. first, here s my take. as an immigrant to america who has traveled a great deal around the
today on the program, election day in america is almost upon us. we are going to bring it. at stake, control of congress. it s a choice. between two vastly different visions for america. will the democrats lose their slim majority? i will talk to bill maher about what tuesday s results will mean for the next two years. then the u.n. s annual climate conference began today in egypt. a damning new report tells us the world won t come close to meeting its temperature target for the end of the century. but in all the gloom, there is some good news about climate action. i will talk to an expert. and left wing populism beat out right wing populism in brazil last week, but can lula succeed in getting the economy to grow and bringing the country back together when he comes to power? we ll explore. first, here s my take. as an immigrant to america who has traveled a great deal around the world, i ve always been certain that america was the best place for people hike me.
and lula, in his acceptance speech said i m going to bring brazil together. he s already trying to find that senter on the social sides of things. i do think we are going to see in his cabinet, it s going to be more incremental and see him try to reform the center. that polarization is still there. in fact, we ve seen it this last week in brazil with truckers and others blocking the roads and many protests appearing. so it will be a huge challenge for his administration. one of the big differences people are expecting is that bolsonaro seemed unconcerned about climate change, was more than happy to continue deforesting the amazon, all that kind of thing. and lula has criticized that and promised to change. but there is a fundamental problem. brazil is a huge agricultural exporter. a lot of the kind of policies
powerful left-wing swing that has taken place in latin america where almost every election that s taken place, the governments have moved left. does he have the opportunity here to demonstrate that you don t have to go from kind of crazy right-wing populism to crazy left-wing populism, that there is a way for a left of center government to run the economy, or will people, without ot other countries in latin america view lula as an important role mod snell lula s administration is going to be a bellwether for this. he ran on keeping democracy in brazil. he has fellow travelers in that throughout south america and other parts of latin america. we see a democratic progressive left, we see a more authoritarian left. we see some dictatorships who pretend they re left. but lula could take the mantle
out right wing populism in brazil last week, but can lula succeed in getting the economy to grow and bringing the country back together when he comes to power? we ll explore. first, here s my take. as an immigrant to america who has traveled a great deal around the world, i ve always been certain that america was the best place for people hike me. people who look different with brown skin and a strange name. i remember coming to america as a college student and feeling the openness and generosity of a country born of and made by immigrants. when visiting britain around the same time, i could sense that i was treated politely but as an outsider. in 2019, the tweet from britain s chancellor caught my eye. britain is the most successful multiracial democracy in the world. he tweeted something similar last week, after the appointment of rishi sunak as prime minister