The Brazilian political leader has been visiting Mexico since yesterday and will have breakfast tomorrow at the National Palace with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Responding to a newspaper questionnaire, Lula assured that Brazil has returned to the hunger map. We have a government that doesn’t really govern, that focuses on lies and respects absolutely nothing. Neither the indigenous, black, women… and treats the governors and mayors as enemies.
This disastrous government, pointed out the former Brazilian president, is a direct result of the anti-political sentiment that the elites, with the help of media sectors, planted in Brazil, but it will be overcome this year at the polls.
The “anti-politics”, continued Lula, was the response of the elites who never accepted governments that acted independently and for the poorest. “The idea that the children of the poor could enter universities, thanks to affirmative action programs and financial support, was never accepted by the elites.”
Failing to democratically defeat the progressive governments, the elites created “a kind of anti-politics” and, with the support of the big media, promoted the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and the judicial process against Lula himself, the newspaper commented.
The result of all this was Bolsonaro, who in three years of government has already had such a violent impact on the increase in deaths that the life expectancy of Brazilians was reduced by four years. Brazil is the second country with the most deaths from Covid-19, there is hunger and weapons are scattered throughout society, Lula explained.
To the question of what he expects from Mexico, he replied “that he has many friends here in this country, that he is experiencing an important moment with the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the popular AMLO.” The relationship between Brazil and Mexico is important for many reasons, starting with the fact that they are the two largest countries in Latin America, he said.
Lula added that López Obrador has managed to assert Mexico’s autonomy without creating antagonisms, contributing to a more balanced relationship on our continent, which is essential for Latin American development.
It is necessary, he maintained, to go beyond commercial exchange. We need to work in a world of cooperation, balance and peace, with representative and effective international institutions. Environmental problems, especially global warming, the pandemic and the brutal inequalities within and between countries, require a profound reform of global governance, she concluded.
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