Diplomatic sources that accompany the crisis of the tariffs imposed by the United States to Brazil say that we need to let dust download to know if there is still a dialogue channel with interlocutors in the government of Donald Trump. If there is no dialogue space, diplomacy will continue to work to defend Brazilian democracy, they say.
The assessment at Itamaraty is that Trump decided to enter the Brazilian election campaign, more than a year in advance, and of course support for the Bolsonaro family.
The point is that OL, these sources say. “Send” Brazil end the trial against former President Jair Bolsonaro is not negotiating, they said.
According to them, it is absurd for a foreign leader to suggest that Brazilian justice do this or that, since even within Brazil can interfere with the other. “This one takes here, no democratic country that would accept,” says a diplomatic source.
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Already last week, diplomats noticed some signs indicating that the White House thought to do something about Brazil, but had doubts whether it would be only about the STF or something broader, as it turned out.
Some possibility of Trump government action was already on the Radar of Diplomats, indicating that after eight months, the Maga (Make America Great Again) movement, which can not be translated as “Make Large America again” and Brazilians linked to trumpster in the United States would annunize some breakthrough.
The purpose of these Brazilians in the US was a hard measure against Brazil on the first day of government. But Brazil was left out of the first list of overcoat countries.
The issue of tariffs had been being negotiated technically since the beginning of the Trump administration, by the correct channels, and negotiations were normally, these sources told.
So much so that Brazil did not enter the first list of countries with higher tariffs, as it was advertised. Until yesterday, President Donald Trump introduced the political component in the negotiation.
The measures announced now can produce a disaster for some productive sectors. Some of the most affected products should be coffee, cellulose, oil and fruit juice, according to experts
Yesterday, Ambassador Maria Luisa Escorel, Secretary of North America and Europe of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, transmitted, in the first conversation with US embassy business, Gabriel Escobar, which causes a very strange democracy of the most traditional to intrude on internal affairs in Brazil, aligning with those who tried to destroy democracy.
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Although the president, approved by the National Congress in April, diplomacy still intends to act at the negotiation level. And the sources evaluate that retaliation could scale the crisis. The idea is to use the deadline until August 1st to try some advance.
Diplomatic sources recall that they were able to circumvent other crises with the Trump government, as in the case of the Brazilians deported with handcuffs, previously barred steel and aluminum tariffs and tariff negotiations that were being referred in the right way until then.
These sources remember that Brazil was not the first nor will it be the last country to suffer attacks from the Trump administration. However, the issue is more serious because, in this case, it was an attack on the Democratic Rule of Law in Brazil, according to.
