President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva again criticized the government of Donald Trump on Thursday (14), secretary of specialized care for health and creator of the Mais Médicos program.
The measure was announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on the grounds that the program would constitute a “coercive export of labor” of the Cuban regime.
During Hemobrás event in Pernambuco, Lula associated the sanction with a broader political offensive against Cuba, a country he described as a “victim of an unfair block” for seven decades. “He [Trump] He is not emperor, ”said the president, defending the end of the economic embargo imposed since 1962 and asking Cubans to“ live in peace ”.
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program created in 2013 in the Dilma Rousseff government to expand care in remote areas with the support of Cuban doctors. Repealed in Bolsonaro management, the program was resumed by Lula in 2023 and has already received recognition in the UN report on international health cooperation.
The revocation of the visa occurs in the same context as other measures adopted by Trump against Brazil: the 50% rate on exports, the cancellation of visas of Ministers of the Supreme Court and the inclusion of Alexandre de Moraes on the list of sanctioned by the Magnitsky Law.
In the republican discourse, these actions would be a response to the “persecution” of Brazilian justice against Jair Bolsonaro, a narrative that contrasts with the international recognition that Brazil maintains democratic institutions and an independent judiciary.
