“We had, for 4 years, a president who took the initiative to isolate himself from the world”, said the PT in Argentina
The president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) said indirectly this Monday (23.jan.2023) that the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PT) “took the initiative” to isolate Brazil from the rest of the world to “don’t allow” that the countrycontinue its democratic process. According to him, the exclusion was the “head of the President of the Republic [Bolsonaro] that was blocking.
“We had, for four years, a president who took the initiative to isolate himself from the world. In 4 years he has not received anyone and has not visited anyone. It was as if there was a blockade of humanity against Brazil, but Brazil was not blocked. It was the head of the President of the Republic, who was blocking himself to not allow Brazil to continue its democratic process”, said during a cultural event in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On the occasion, the president of Brazil also said that “a concrete fact” is what “many countries in Latin America have not yet learned to live together democratically”. Also present were the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, and the Argentine leader, Alberto Fernández.
For Lula, Brazil lived a “specious moment” in the years when it was governed by the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores) and entered into a “backward” after the ex-president Dilma Rousseff (EN) underwent the process of impeachmentin 2016.
“Many countries in Latin America have not yet learned to live together democratically. We need to consolidate democracy because only in a democratic regime, an indigenous [Evo Morales] can be president of a country […] You know that after a special moment –when we governed from 2003 to 2016– there was a coup d’état, the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, the 1st woman elected president of the Republic of Brazil. And Brazil entered a setback that I never imagined Brazil could enter”he declared.
Furthermore, Lula said that his visit to Argentina was to say “that Brazil is back”. The President spoke again “rebuild and strengthen” Mercosur (Southern Common Market) and Unasur (Union of South American Nations).
“Alone, we are weak, but together we can create the great nation dreamed of by [José de] San Martin, by [Simón] Bolívar and for so many people who fought for our independence”he concluded.
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