A politician is not automatically a savior if he is not a right-wing populist.
This applies even more to the new Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva than to his counterpart Joe Biden further north on the continent.
Not only is Lula dealing with a Congress dominated by its political opponents.
Above all, it is unclear whether he will get what made his first presidency successful again, which was only subsequently discredited by a huge corruption scandal: strong growth, then driven by a commodity boom.
It is not only in the run-down neighboring country of Argentina that one sees what happens when the left in Latin America runs out of (bribe) money.
It's not only about climate protection
Federal President Steinmeier, who was in Brasilia for the inauguration, will be less interested in all of this, as will German politics as a whole.
In a strange narrowing of perspective, the largest and most important country in South America is almost exclusively perceived as the guardian of the Amazon forest;
Just in time for Lula's assumption of office, the federal government released millions for a protection fund.
But the interests of the West do not end with climate protection.
Lula once spoke very critically about Zelenskyj, saying that Putin will court Brazil.
Not everything is likely to change with Bolsonaro's departure.