The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said Friday that he does not admit that his American counterpart, Donald Trump, “say so many lies about Brazil” in relation to trade, human rights and the trial against former president Jair Bolsonaro.
“We are living an unnecessary turbulence” in the relationship with the United States, said the Brazilian leader during the inauguration of a factory of the Chinese GWM company in the city of Iracemápolis, inside the state of São Paulo.
Lula again claimed from the 50% tariffs that Trump has imposed on Brazilian products as retaliation for the coup dictation that he is in the Supreme Court against Bolsonaro, whose final phase will begin on September 2, as the court announced on Friday.
The Brazilian president considered that decision as “a moment of provocation” without commercial justifications, supported that the exchange between the two countries is favorable to the United States for fifteen years.
Trump has gone further and, in the last report on the situation of human rights in the world disseminated by the State Department, various criticisms of Brazil were overturned, partly linked to the process against Bolsonaro and an alleged “persecution” unleashed against conservatives.
The president of the United States also said that “it is horrible” to negotiate with Brazil, a country that he accused of having treated US companies “very bad”.
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Lula stressed that “telling the world that this country is horrible to negotiate is not true” and that it cannot “admit that the president of the United States tells so many lies about Brazil”, a country that “has a people that deserves respect.”
He also declared that his government “will fight so that the world is more balanced and that multilateralism is rescued”, because “there is no trade just when a large country tries to submit to the little ones.”
Within that framework, it celebrated the inauguration of the GWM plant and the strategic relationship that Brazil has established with China, the country’s largest commercial partner for almost two decades, a position of which in the time displaced the United States.
With EFE information.
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