Juan Gonzalez, senior director of the Western Hemisphere’s National Security Council, said Wednesday in an interview with journalists who will follow the next Summit of the Americas that the US government trusts Brazilian electoral institutions that have proven to be robust.
The US diplomat declined to be asked whether concerns about the anti-democratic rhetoric espoused by President Jair Bolsonaro – expressed to the Brazilian government by multiple US government representatives – would be discussed at the meeting between Biden and Bolsonaro next week.
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“The theme of the Brazilian election is that Brazilians decide, and the United States has confidence in Brazilian electoral institutions that have proven themselves to be solid,” he said.
“The meeting between President Biden and President Bolsonaro will cover a wide range of issues, bilateral and frankly global, given the importance of the relationship between the United States and Brazil,” he said.
Among those topics, Gonzalez put three issues that Joe Biden considered top priority at this summit, such as the economic response to the pandemic, food insecurity, and health insecurity, with commitments prepared for signature by diplomats. by .presidents.
Two other issues highlighted by North Americans face resistance from the Brazilian government. One is climate change, which directly involves deforestation in the Amazon – an issue Bolsonaro doesn’t want to address.
The other, democratic governance, includes, in the words of Brian Nichols, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, “a plan of action to establish mechanisms to tackle the new challenges of democracy.” missions”.
Recently, the Brazilian government has created problems with the presence of an observer mission from the European Union during the elections. Bolsonaro, who was disturbed by the possibility of seeing the EU, with which he had a difficult relationship, in Brazil in the elections that he said could compete, had to step back from the invitation of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE).
In any case, the court points to a record level of observer presence in the country in October, without Europeans and against Bolsonaro’s will.
source: Noticias
