President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva used on Friday, 11, an official event to criticize the Bolsonaro clan. By participating in the presentation ceremony of the new Rio Doce agreement, in Linhares (ES), the petista called Jair Bolsonaro “The Thing” and mocked the licensed deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP)-the former president’s son-the 50% fare imposed by US President Donald Trump on Brazil’s products.
Lula and government strategy is to blame the Bolsonaro family for Trump’s decision announced. The Planalto Palace has explored the discourse of attack on Brazilian sovereignty by Americans. “That coward thing that prepared a blow in this country, did not have the courage to do, is being prosecuted, will be tried and sent his son to the US to ask Trump to make a threat,” said the president – who used the cap with the words “Brazil is from Brazilians.”
He questioned how Bolsonaro has been facing the process of which he is targeted in the Federal Supreme Court. “What kind of man is this who is not ashamed to face the headed head process?” Asked Lula. “Bolsonaro will be tried. If he is innocent, he will be acquitted, like me; if guilty, he goes to jail,” he said.
The petista, however, was not acquitted of his processes. His convictions were nullified by the Supreme Court after the case known as “Vaza Jato” (reports with messages attributed to former Judge Sergio Moro-current senator-and former attorney Deltan Dallagnol).
Despite not having adopted an aggressive tone against Trump in most of the speech, Lula repeated the argument that the president of the United States “would be arrested” in Brazil if the episode of the Capitol, which occurred in the US capital in 2021, had occurred in Brazilian territory.
The ceremony in Linhares was organized with the objective of announcing the payment of R $ 3.7 billion in compensation for 22,000 fishermen and 13,000 family farmers from Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais who were hit in 2015 by the breach of the Fundão Dam in Mariana (MG), from Mining Samarco – controlled by Vale and BHP.
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Ministers
The event brought together Federal Government ministers, who also took the opportunity to attack political opponents. Civil House Minister Rui Costa implied that Bolsonarists who supported Trump’s decision are “traitors of the homeland.” “Many carried in recent election campaigns the Brazilian flag on their backs to say they were real Brazilians. But now, with the US attack, we know who the Brazilians are and who are the traitors of the country,” he said.
In the same line, the attorney general of the Union, Jorge Messias, said that Lula “contains a single flag: the flag of Brazil”. “I want to give you good news, Brazil has a president of the Republic who thinks first in Brazilians, second in Brazil and third in Brazilians. When there is a time, President Lula also thinks of Brazilians. This one, President Lula, he contains a single flag: the Brazilian flag,” he said.
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“After ten years (since the dam breakdown), we now have an agreement made for you, for someone of you and who will take care of you, not of American interests, because Brazil belongs to Brazilians,” said Messiah, after singing an excerpt from the song Jesus Christ, singer Roberto Carlos, who is capixaba.
The information is from the newspaper The State of S. Paulo.
