Lula will break Bolsonaro’s ethnocentric siege

Brasilia. The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvawill make his first official trip to Argentina at the end of January, and then he will visit USAPortugal and ChinaA source from the presidency reported this Tuesday.

Lula, 77, will participate in the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (celac), which takes place on January 23 and 24 in Buenos Aires.

Then, the leftist leader, who assumed the presidency of the South American giant for the third time last Sunday, must meet with his American counterpart, Joe Bidenin Washington, on a trip still “undated”, according to the same source.

The trip to China, Brazil’s first trading partner, will be “after March,” he added.

“China attaches great importance to the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Brazil, and welcomes President Lula’s visit to China at a mutually convenient time,” Mao Ning, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, told a briefing. .

The presidency also confirmed that Lula will be in Portugal from April 22 to 25, as the Portuguese head of state, Marcelo Rebelo, had indicated the day before, after both met in Brasilia.

In his inauguration speech in Congress, Lula announced a new leading role for Brazil in the world by resuming “South American integration” and the reconstruction of “high and active dialogue with the United States, the European Union and China.”

The new foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, said Monday at the inauguration ceremony that Brazil will have “a huge reconstruction job” after this “unprecedented setback.”

Lula, who already governed this country twice between 2003 and 2010 and gives the first signs of wanting to break the international isolation of Brazil during the four years of his predecessor, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

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