President Donald Trump has announced during his speech before the UN General Assembly that next week will meet with his counterpart from Brazil, without offering more details. The future encounter is a consequence of the fleeting contact between the two leaders, this Tuesday, in the halls of the United Nations: “I saw it, he saw me and we set our hands. We were to see each other next week,” explained the American. “It looks like a good guy, I liked and I fell good to him,” he added.
The first meeting between the leaders of the two most populated democracies in America would be held when Trump has been in the White House for eight months. Both hadn’t even talked since then, but share the taste of the Campeche style. The former Brazilian trade unionist is among the handful of leaders who have not folded before the unilateral measures of the president-Magnate. Shortly after, the Brazilian chancellor, Mauro Vieira, has suggested, in an interview with CNN, that the conversation “could be by telephone or by video call, since the president [Lula] It is very busy. ”
The Trump-Lula meeting would be held from a bilateral relationship of more than two centuries. Both were for the first time under the same roof this Tuesday and have crossed because the Brazilian representative has been opening the speeches of the heads of state for seven decades and is followed by the United States as a host country. “I only do business with people that I like. (…) For at least 30 seconds we had an excellent chemistry, which is a good sign,” said the Republican.
The US administration is embarked against Brazil so that Jair Bolsonaro, former president and ally of Trump, did not pay accounts before the courts for trying to perpetrate a coup d’etat.
The veteran Lula has referred, without mentioning countries or names, to the matter in his speech when he has criticized that “attacks on sovereignty, arbitrary sanctions and unilateral interventions have become the norm.” Lula and Brazilian diplomacy have been looking for a way to open a way of dialogue with the White House, absolutely closed to all efforts.
In his devastating speech against the UN, the fight against climate change, international laws, etc., Trump has slipped a threatening tone against Brazil: “It will only do well when they cooperate with us, if not, they will fail, as others failed.” And justified as a measure of reciprocity.
Bolsonaro was sentenced two weeks ago 27 years for leading a coup d’etat despite 50% tariffs imposed by Washington to Brazilian exports and sanctions against the judge who takes the case and others of his colleagues of the Supreme Court. This same Monday, the Department of the Treasury has returned to the load with Judge Alexandre de Moraes, which was already punished in July.
In his speech before the UN Annual Assembly, the Brazilian President wanted to value the sentence against Bolsonaro: “Peace cannot be reached with impunity,” he said before emphasizing that, “for the first time in 520 years of our history, an old head -state chief has been convicted of attacking the rule of law in a meticulous process in which he has had the right to defend himself.” The Congress is immersed in the debate of a proposal to shorten the sorrows to the coup plotters, but there seems to be an amnesty.
After condemning Hamas’s attack in 2023, Lula has emphasized that “nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the genocide that is underway in Gaza.” The Brazilian recalled that tens of thousands of Palestinians are buried under the rubble, “international humanitarian law and the myth of the ethical superiority of the West are also buried. This massacre would not have occurred without the complicity of those who could have avoided it.”
