German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is travelling to South America for a four-day trip to Argentina, Chile and Brazil – his first visit to the region since taking office at the end of 2021. The first stop is Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital, followed by Chile on Sunday and a two-day visit to Brazil, the continent’s largest and most populous country. There Scholz will meet the left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was sworn in on January 1 after winning a run-off election in October against Jair Bolsonaro. On January 8 thousands of rioters attacked Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and p…