巴西将于10月4日举行总统选举首轮投票。现任总统卢伊兹·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦与前总统雅伊尔·博索纳罗之子弗拉维奥·博索纳罗支持率不相上下。雅伊尔·博索纳罗因策划军事政变，目前正在狱中服刑。
有人担忧并指责美国干预选举；类似指控此前已出现在拉丁美洲一系列选举中，这些选举均由唐纳德·特朗普支持的候选人获胜，并被称为“橙色浪潮”。
Brazil will head to the polls on 4 October for the first vote in its presidential race. The incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is neck-and-neck with Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for plotting a military coup. There are fears and accusations that the US is interfering in the election, and these follow similar allegations in a string of elections across Latin America which were won by Donald Trump-backed candidates in what is being called 'the orange wave'.
《卫报》拉丁美洲记者汤姆·菲利普斯解读了特朗普及其政府近几个月来采用的手法，以及博索纳罗政府若再次上台可能对该地区和世界产生的影响。
The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, explains the tactics Trump and his administration have been using in recent months and what impact another Bolsonaro government could have on the region, and the world