Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and US President Joe Biden met during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles (USA) for the first personal contact between the two presidents since Bolsonaro’s offer of solidarity. To Vladimir Putin a week before the Russian President authorized the invasion of Ukraine.
The meeting did not miss scenario diplomatic, but body language turned out to be “unspoken,” as analyzed by UOL columnist Fernanda Magnotta. There was no public handshake and limited exchange of glances.
We don’t know how the brief private meeting with Biden went – the White House just reported that, generally speaking, leaders spoke of “supporting democratic renewal.” But while the American president prioritized democratic and environmental issues in his first speech, the Brazilian once again questioned the electoral system.
Praising Brazil’s “good job” in preserving the Amazon, Biden said, “Brazil is a wonderful place. With its vibrant, inclusive democracy and strong institutions, our nations are bound together by deep shared values,” and urged “the rest.” helping finance world conservation”.
Bolsonaro, on the other hand, made no mention of the environment, saying once again that he “wants to hold clean, reliable and auditable elections so that there is no doubt after the election”, implying that the democratic system that brought him to power is implied. It has changed since 2018. Request.
This is not the first time the two leaders have voiced divergent views.
no congratulations
The first “climate” came just after Biden was elected in 2020, beating Donald Trump and then backed by Bolsonaro. The Brazilian president took 38 days to congratulate the American, the last leader of the G-20, who congratulated Biden on his victory. Of all world leaders, only North Korean dictator Kim Jon-Un has outlasted Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro went so far as to claim, without any proof, that there was “fraud” in the US election process.
Amazon is always on the agenda
But even before Biden defeated Trump, Bolsonaro criticized the Democrat for talking about pooling resources with other countries to end Brazil’s deforestation in the Amazon – saying the country could face sanctions if he didn’t.
As Palácio da Alvorada left, he asked the fans, “Is this what you want for Brazil? Intervention from the outside in?” said.
Two months after Biden’s victory, John Kerry, the Biden administration’s special climate envoy, told the US House Foreign Relations Committee that Americans must negotiate with Bolsonaro at the expense of Amazon’s “disappearance.”
When asked about the Americans’ performance, the Brazilian president replied, “Brazil’s doors are open and ready to continue negotiating with the American government.” However, a “more left-wing government” like the Biden administration “almost obsessed with the environmental issue”, Bolsonaro believes “it bothers us a bit”.
In the group “constant abusers of Brazil”, [dizendo] According to the president, Biden is Emmanuel Macron from France, Justin Trudeau from Canada and Boris Johnson from the UK.
For him, this means “leaving Brazil in the background in the commodity market”.
“We have goods here, especially in the countryside. And we compete with some important countries. Obviously countries are interested in leaving us in the background, because the less goods on the market, the more valuable theirs. France, the United States, a Great influence. “It’s a small part of Australia that doesn’t own it and doesn’t work against us.”
Threatened democracies and elections
After Biden was elected, a document circulated at the highest levels of government while Bolsonaro was president, calling for a freeze of agreements, negotiations and political alliances with Brazil.
The text, published by the BBC, called into question the Brazilian’s rapprochement with Trump, “questioning Washington’s role as a credible partner in the fight to preserve and expand democracy”, and said that “the government Biden-Harris “It should not pursue a free trade agreement with Brazil in any way,” he said.
Bolsonaro’s criticism of electronic voting machines and accusations of corruption without proof in the 2018 Brazilian elections had already triggered a warning in the US.
A Reuters report noted that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had told Brazilian government officials as early as 2021 that President Bolsonaro should stop casting doubts about the country’s voting system.
In an interview with SBT News shortly before his last meeting with Biden, Bolsonaro said that President Trump is “slightly behind” the current US administration because he is “in very good shape”.
“The American people saying that. I won’t go into details about the sovereignty of another country. Now, Trump was doing very well. In Brazil. There is information that Brazilians are people who voted more times than they did,” he said.
Bolsonaro’s government began on January 1, 2019, with the inauguration of President Jair Bolsonaro (later in PSL) and vice-president General Hamilton Mourão (PRTB). During his tenure, Bolsonaro left the PSL and remained partyless. The participation of ministries in the army is high. Bolsonaro positions his political alliance among conservatives on the right and in tradition.
source: Noticias
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