The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, shot at his pair of the United States, Donald Trump. On the first day of applied by the Republican against the first economy of Latin America, Lula called Trump of “authoritarian” and “anticivilizatory” and accused him of “creating problems in a relationship where they did not exist.” He also said that he does not plan to call him on the phone to negotiate because Trump “does not want to speak.” “A president cannot humiliate himself for another president. I respect everyone and demand respect for me,” said the Brazilian in statements to the Reuters agency.
The Brazilian also had words to Jair Bolsonaro, whom he accused, together with his son Eduardo, of “there are no precedents in the history of a president and his son, a deputy, who put the president of the United States against Brazil. They must be judged for that,” he said.
The relationship between the United States and Brazil is going through a crisis that is not preceded. As part of its commercial war against the rest of the world, Trump especially punished the South American country with the largest tariff applied to any other country. The republican arguments were not economical, but political. Trump considers that his friend Bolsonaro, judged for allegedly trying to overthrow Lula in January 2023, is the victim of a judicial “witch hunt” and used the tariff as retaliation. In recent months, he openly requested that the trial against Bolsonaro had to stop. The campaign against Brazil included the State Department punished with a law designed for human rights violators and dictators.
Brazilian negotiators in their attempt to open a door in Washington. This week, they celebrated that they had managed to leave some 700 products out of the climb of tariffs, some as relevant as oil, airplanes and cellulose pulp. On Tuesday, Economy Minister Fernando Haddad said they were even willing to offer critical minerals and rare earths in exchange for a decrease in tariffs. There was, however, communication between Lula and Trump, and it does not seem that there will be in the short term.
“I didn’t call it [a Trump] Because he doesn’t want to make calls, “said Lula.” During an interview in a Brazilian environment, they asked him: ‘Are you going to talk to Lula?’ ‘Now not,’ he replied. That is, our best negotiators are trying to talk to their negotiators. I don’t have to call President Trump because in the letters he sent he never talks about negotiations. Talk about new threats, ”he complained.
Trump reprisals fueled in Brazil the nationalist feeling. “This is not a minor intervention,” said Lula, “it is the president of the United States who believes that he can dictate the rules about a sovereign country like Brazil. It is not admissible that the United States, nor any other country, large or small, give an unre requested opinion about our sovereignty. What we are not finding is dialogue. When they want to speak, I will speak.”
The Brazilian government has a folder a state aid plan for companies that are affected by tariffs. Lula clarified that, for now, that will be the only response to the United States. “I do all this when I could announce a tax to American products. I will not do it because I don’t want to behave like President Trump. I want to show that when one does not want to fight, two do not fight. And I don’t want to fight with the United States.”
Judgment to Bolsonaro
Last Monday, Judge Moraes ordered the home arrest of Bolsonaro for breaching, in his opinion, the restrictions that he had imposed on July 18, when in the list was not using social networks, even through other people. The order from the Government was not to talk about the matter not to victimize Bolsonaro or pour firewood at Trump’s bonfire. Lula himself avoided the issue when he was consulted during an official act. His attitude changed this Wednesday, with an answer that places Trump as an “authoritarian” and Bolsonaro and his family as “traitors to the homeland” for promoting Trumpist punishment.
Lula talked about Bolsonaro and also his son, deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, who from his self -exile in the United States did and puts pressure for Trump to advance on Brasilia. “His son should be subject to another process and convicted as a traitor to the homeland. That is what he is. A federal deputy, son of a former president, travels to the United States with the mission of lying and putting the US government against Brazil. These people will be convicted of this, and they know they will be judged, and they know they can be convicted,” he said.
