Brazil Recalls Ambassador to Argentina After Milei Attacks Lula, Sources Say
Brazil said Milei’s insults at a São Paulo political rally crossed a line and strained already tense ties with Argentina.
- On Sunday, Brazil recalled Ambassador Julio Bitelli for consultations after Argentine President Javier Milei used a weekend trip to criticize the country's leadership and judiciary.
- Milei visited Sao Paulo on Friday to support Senator Flavio Bolsonaro's presidential bid, where he called Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula a "thief" and a "delinquent" during a Saturday speech.
- The Argentine President also attacked Supreme Federal Court Minister Alexandre, calling him "trash" after the judge denied him a visit to jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence.
- Describing the comments as a "direct affront," the Brazilian government emphasized the already virtually non-existent diplomatic relationship between the two countries continues to deteriorate.
- While Lula has not directly addressed the insults, he asserted in The Washington Post that "Brazil's destiny is determined only by Brazilians without external interference, without subservience.
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The relations between Argentina and Brazil have reached a point of no return in the last hours. President Javier Milei’s trip to the neighboring country – to support the candidacy of Flávio Bolsonaro – has unleashed an unprecedented scandal in the bilateral link. Although the frictions between the Andean president and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are not new, this weekend the speech of the economist in San Pablo, where h…
The Argentine president made the statements in Brazil, where he went for the launch of the presidential campaign of right-wing Flavio Bolsonaro.
A diplomatic crisis has erupted between the two countries after the Argentine President Milei's derogatory statements about Brazil's head of state, Lula da Silva.
The Argentinean head of state sees the neighbouring country as the originator of a campaign that denigrates the Argentines as a people of racists. Milei now hopes that the «right wave» will also capture Brazil.
The president of Argentina referred to Lula as "prisoner" and "thief", in a speech lit up and full of offenses in which I also accused him...
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