New York City’s left-wing Mayor Zohran Mamdani congratulated Brazilian president Lula Inacio de la Silva on his questionable reelection victory on Sunday by quoting a Marxist slogan: “The people united will never be defeated!”
\n\nLula narrowly won the second round of the Brazilian presidential election on Sunday, after losing the first round to Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro by a little over two points. The outcome has been challenged because a judge loyal to Lula intervened at the last minute to keep the polls open for an extra two hours in Lula’s northeastern electoral stronghold of Bahia. As of Monday morning, Bolsonaro has not conceded the race.
\n\nLeft-wing celebrities and political figures around the world nevertheless leaped to congratulate Lula for winning reelection to a historic fourth term, even as much of Latin America has been leaning to the right.
\n\nMamdani extended his congratulations by quoting the title of “The People United Will Never Be Defeated,” a Marxist protest anthem from the 1970s.
\n\nThe song was written by Chilean pianist Sergio Ortega as the government of Communist-sympathizing President Salvador Allende was tottering on the edge of a coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. The stage for the coup was set when Allende…
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