Itamaraty summoned the head of the US Embassy in Brasilia, Gabriel Escobar, for a second meeting at the Chancellery, on Wednesday (9), in new gesture to demonstrate contradiction with
At the time, Itamaraty symbolically returned and announces the imposition of a 50% surcharge on Brazilian products.
Trump published the letter on a social network, also this Wednesday.
The American states that the way Brazil has treated Bolsonaro is a “shame” and that the trial against the former president is a “witch hunt” that needs to be closed immediately. “
According to the letter, the rates will be charged from August 1. Trump speaks of “secret and illegal” orders issued against media platforms in the United States, and violation of “freedom of expression of Americans.”
Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had already summoned Escobar to give explanations at a first meeting. The Lula administration expressed its contradiction with Trump’s notes that defended Bolsonaro and said he was underway political persecution of the government and the judiciary.
Then he was relaxed in the face of the announcement of tariffs against Brazil.
In a statement, the US embassy in Brasilia said Escobar attended meetings with Brazilian authorities at Itamaraty. “As a politics, we don’t comment on private diplomatic conversations,” the mission said.
In a reaction to the surcharge, he stated that the measure will be answered through the reciprocity law.
“The information is false, in the case of the commercial relationship between Brazil and the United States, about the alleged US deficit. The statistics of the United States government itself prove a surplus of this country in the trade of goods and services with Brazil of the order of US $ 410 billion over the last 15 years,” Lula wrote on social network.
According to the Planalto note, the judicial process against those who planned a coup of state is of jurisdiction “only of the Brazilian justice and, therefore, is not subject to any kind of interference or threat that has the independence of national institutions.”
