New victoria for Brazil. The United States then removed Alexandre de Moraes from the list of people sanctioned by the Magnitsky Act, where he had been part of a group of terrorists and narcos for months. This is Washington’s second major unilateral concession in less than a month after easing restrictions on meat, coffee and much of Brazil’s imports. Excellent news for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; harmful for ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. Step by step, Trump is relaunching the extraordinary – and failed – campaign of punishment that he launched, at the instigation of Bolsonarism, against Brazilian institutions and businessmen to prevent the ultra-derechistas from being brought to justice. Lula’s strategy – firmness, diplomacy and, finally, personal charm – worked.
President Lula criticized the “victory of Brazilian democracy” because “it was not fair for a president of another country to punish a judge of a Brazilian court who respected the Brazilian Constitution.” This objective of Brazilian institutions against American unilateralism and Bolsonaro’s disinformation was celebrated by Lula during an event in which Moraes also participated, smiling and satisfied.
The worst crisis in 200 years among America’s most populous democracies erupted on July 7. Lula happily finished the BRICS summit in Rio. He had just dismissed the representatives of the Sur Global bloc, who were renewing their commitment to multilateralism, when Trump launched a tweet on his network denouncing an alleged “witch hunt against Bolsonaro”. The coup left Brazil stunned; Bolsonaro was fleeing his brothers.
Two days ago, Trump announced farezopunishing Brazilian exports with the highest exports in the world. The fact that it is one of the few countries on the planet with which it has beneficial trade relations is of no importance to President Trump. Of course, it was a personal matter: the operation to save Bolsonaro.
President Lula responded that day to the Republican with a clear message: “The world has changed. We do not want an emperor, we are sovereign countries.” The former trade unionist threatened the tycoon with reciprocal advances which never came to fruition. Brazilian diplomacy is in action. Diplomats, senior civil servants, businessmen…
The public message addressed to Casa Blanca was clear: absolute desire to talk about trade; he Bolsonaro affair The failure of any negotiation with a foreign government is an internal matter.
The same day, he farezo and sanctions against Moraes came into force, leading to a first secret meeting between annuller Mauro Vieira and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to Brazilian diplomatic sources. The Vieira-Rubio channel was very important in a vast operation that included a lot of work of dialogue with an infinite number of contacts in Washington to clarify the facts and deny them. fake news on the judgment of the patriarch broadcast by Bolsonaro.
Breaking the US wall and getting messages from Brasilia to Trump required patience. Once this goal was achieved, the door opened to a direct dialogue between the presidents. “Hubo is preparing a lot so that presidential diplomacy is the game changerand así fue,” said the fuente.
Lula and Trump do not know each other because, when the Brazilian first came to power, the tycoon was in the real estate sector; Nadie could imagine that she would arrive at Casa Blanca. The first contact was a fleeting greeting, in the UN offices, in September.
Meanwhile, in Brasilia, Bolsonaro and several four-star generals were tried in absolute normality by the first chamber of the Supreme Court of a historic tribunal. For the first time, certain soldiers are punished for an attempted coup d’état. Bolsonaro and his main accomplices served long sentences, although one of them fled to Miami.
In October, Trump and Lula first spoke on the phone, then finally came quietly in person. Held a 50-minute meeting in Malaysia, alongside the ASEAN Summit. A face-to-face between two men with ideological opposites, one born in New York, the other from the interior of Pernambuco, but who share age (80 years Lula; 79 Bolsonaro) and the desire to conclude an agreement (even if the Brazilian prefers them with both parties satisfied when Trump was little. It is important to impose them on them with courage).
Chemical center, said Lula. Trump, always unstable, annoys the losers; He loves winners, as he eloquently demonstrated by receiving the Despacho Ovale from Zohran Mamdani while he was winning the New York City Council. With Bolsonaro in prison, sentenced to 27 years in prison, the President of the United States may have observed Lula from a different perspective. Maybe I started to see him as a nice, affable, straightforward guy, with a moderate degree of politics behind his back and the protagonist of an epic story. The former metalworker who came to the presidency of a country dominated by elites, who had to endure the bitter taste of prison and managed to emerge like a phoenix bird to return to power.
In November, I took the first important distensional gesture since Washington, a strong relief of the aranceles (driven by domestic political reasons). Now the lifting of sanctions against Judge Moraes and his lawyer wife. Seven other Supreme Court judgments and two ministers remain on the Magitsky list. Brasilia hopes that all punitive measures will be reversed.
The quid pro quo that Trump undoubtedly demanded from Lula and his government is currently unknown.
Bolsonarism caused a backlash. Then it was possible for Trump to embark on the adventure of interference and exercise an unprecedented prison, which is why I suppose that Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the ex-president, the pyrotechnician, was accused of tradition in the country, the most powerful politician in the world, who replenished the sails. Leave without punishment when Moraes enters the humiliation category. As an anonymous senior American official explained to the Brazilian press, the arrangements and sanctions do not serve Washington’s interests. El Bolsonaro de los Trópicos proved in the flesh how quickly Trump changes his mood and chooses a new dance partner.
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