Lula Kicks Off UN General Assembly With Broadside at Trump (1)

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva opened the United Nations General Assembly with a pointed message to Donald Trump, the next speaker set to take the stage.

As part of a decades-long tradition, Brazilian leaders typically open the UN’s annual gathering in New York. But this year’s meeting came at an especially tense moment as the two largest nations in the Americas clash over the fate of former President Jair Bolsonaro — a Trump ally convicted of attempting a coup against Lula.

Brazil’s top court sentenced Bolsonaro to more than 27 years in prison, even after Trump imposed ...