Neto of the last president of the military in Brazil, the Bolsonarist businessman Paulo Figueiredo denied having a different stance from his grandfather and said he wanted to “continue his legacy”.
The statement was given in response to which experts pointed out the difference between their performance in the US and the protectionist attitude and is aveiled to external interference from former President João Baptista Figueiredo (1979-1985).
“A Sheet S.Paulo Wrong when comparing my current performance in the US with my grandfather’s foreign policy, President João Baptista Figueiredo, ignoring the historical context and real content of his positions. As a head of state, he had institutional duties and, in the UN speech in 1982, criticized military invasions and occupations – not diplomacy or support among friendly nations, “he said.
“In practice, he maintained close relations with Ronald Reagan, who received him at the White House as an official gala reception guest, visited Brazil, and with whom he negotiated crucial support: Renegotiation of foreign debt, US credit lines, US Treasury back and security and technology cooperation. Giant size of the two, “he added.
The speech to which he refers to the opening of the UN General Assembly in 1982, when Figueiredo was the first Brazilian president to speak. In his speech, he criticized foreign intervention in Afghanistan.
The conflict occurred amid the occupation of the country by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, with financial and militarily supported rebels by the Ronald Reagan Republican.
“It cannot be accepted that, due to the policy of bloc, the occupation of sovereign countries and the interference in their own affairs and limits on their freedom, as in Afghanistan, may be imposed,” the then Brazilian president told the occasion.
He defended the removal of Soviet troops from the region, but without expressing support for American intervention. The posture, called ecumenical and responsible pragmatism, marked foreign policy during the governments of Figueiredo and its predecessor, Ernesto Geisel (1974-1979).
His grandson, more than 40 years later, says he wants to follow the legacy of Figueiredo’s “uncompromising defense of democracy and freedom” and cited approval in his 1979 amnesty law, which forgave military and left -wing crimes.
“[João Baptista Figueiredo] He did not ask for the reagual to ‘restore freedoms’ because it was exactly what he was conducting: broad, general and unrestricted amnesty, end of censorship and peaceful return of power to civilians. My commitment is to continue the legacy of my grandfather João Figueiredo and my great -grandfather, General Euclydes Figueiredo, in the uncompromising defense of democracy and freedom, “he said.
Paulo Figueiredo has worked in the US with the (-SP), for sanctions to Brazil in defense of the former president (PL) and against the minister, (Supreme Federal Court). The practice has been dealt with by the Lula government (PT) as blackmail for Bolsonaro to be amnesty in the case of the coup plot.
The Brazilian products – recorded to the interlocution of – was framed in Section 301 of the US Trade Law, the same section that has served as a threat to Brazil because of a measure adopted by its grandfather.
In 1984, a year before the democratic reopening in the country, João Figueiredo sanctioned the PNI (National Computer Policy), which aimed to encourage the development of the Brazilian computer industry and restricted imports in the area.
The following year, the US announced that Brazil would be investigated for unfair trade practices because of PNI, which would have made life difficult for US technology companies in the country. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan reached several Brazilian products in response to national law, something that did not occur.
Although, at the time, Brazil was already governed by, the taxation was the result of a policy adopted by Figueiredo as president, Sheet Dawisson Belém Lopes, a researcher at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais) and author of the book “From Bonifácio A Amorim”, about the history of Brazilian diplomacy.
“Paulo Figueiredo’s grandfather walked to the United States. It is curious, an irony of fate,” said the academic.
