周日的关键总统选举中，1.5亿多巴西人投票决定这个拉丁美洲最大经济体的命运。此前，竞选活动一直受到巴西利亚与华盛顿之间紧张关系的影响。
More than 150 million Brazilians voted Sunday in a pivotal presidential election for Latin America’s largest economy, after a campaign dominated by tensions between Brasília and Washington.
巴西总检察长上周指责美国破坏巴西民主。现任总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦的竞选活动也以此为核心主题。目前，他在民调中以极微弱的优势领先于弗拉维奥·博索纳罗。
Brazil’s attorney general last week accused the US of undermining Brazilian democracy — a central theme for incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who holds a razor-thin polling lead over Flávio Bolsonaro.
据《外交政策》报道，这位右翼挑战者承诺加入华盛顿在拉丁美洲各地开展的“军事化反犯罪倡议”，这是白宫为施加影响于西半球而推行的“Donroe主义”的核心组成部分。
The right-wing challenger has vowed to join Washington’s “militaristic anti-crime initiatives” across Latin America, Foreign Policy wrote, a central part of the White House’s “Donroe Doctrine” for exerting influence in the Western Hemisphere.
尽管巴西拥有丰富资源，但一位专家在《外交事务》中指出，巴西的“自主行动能力正面临风险”，因为“大国……越来越能够决定与巴西交往的条件”。——布伦丹·鲁贝里
Despite Brazil’s immense resources, its “autonomy to act is at risk,” an expert argued in Foreign Affairs, with “major powers… increasingly able to dictate their terms of engagement with Brazil.”— Brendan Ruberry