Braslia:
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Da Silva, said Thursday that if the American counterpart Donald Trump walked tariffs on Brazilian products, he would correspond, but that he would prefer to improve relations during a commercial war.
The Latin American giant is one of the countries that Trump has threatened with higher rates.
“It is very simple: if it taxes Brazilian products, Brazil will correspond to serious products that are exported from the United States,” said Lula, 79, to a press conference.
Lula, currently in his third term, said he would prefer “to improve our relationship with the United States” and boost commercial ties with Brazil’s second largest commercial partner after China.
“I want to respect the United States since Trump respects Brazil. That’s,” he said.
Citing Trump’s comments that he plans to recover the Panama Canal or obtain control of Greenland, Lula said that “he just has to respect the sovereignty of other countries.”
Lula also stressed the global threats facing democracy.
“For me, democracy is the most important thing in humanity at this time … or we maintain democracy working or we will have more authoritarian states than Hitler and fascism.”
Lula, whose country will organize the UN climate conversations of the COP30 in the Amazon city of Belem in November, added that Trump’s decision to withdraw from Paris’s climate agreement was “one step back for human civilization.”
He said he did not want a summit where “the measures are approved, everything looks very good on paper and then no country,” criticizing rich nations for not complying with the previous promises to give billions of dollars to help Developing nations to deal with the consequences of the consequences of the consequences of the consequences of the consequences of the consequences of the consequences. Climate change
“We want something very real so we can know if we are serious or not about the climatic problem.”
Fulfilling the narration
The president held a wide press conference in the capital of Brasilia, urging journalists not to stop in his questions while his government seeks to claim the narrative after fighting a wave of misinformation.
After undergoing emergency surgery to stop a brain bleeding in December linked to a previous fall, Lula promised that he was completely recovered and had “the energy of a 30 -year -old.”
With less than two remaining years of his third presidential mandate, Lula’s approval index has sunk 47 percent, according to a survey considered published this week, with a remarkable fall in the support of his key electoral base in the northeastern Low income from the country of the country. .
Lula said that “he was not worried” for opinion polls, and reduced concerns about high interest rates and public debt.
As expected, the Central Bank increased on Wednesday the key interest rate at a point to 13.25 percent, although Lula appointed a new president of the bank, who in the past has criticized the increases in interest rates.
“The president of the Central Bank cannot turn in U in a stormy sea,” Lula said, adding that he had faith in the new chief of the Gabriel Galipolo bank, which would have “autonomy to do whatever it is necessary.”
Lula also sought to relieve concerns about government interventions to reduce food prices and promised his commitment to “fiscal responsibility.”
His government is weighing the reduction of import tariff country”.
The concerns about Brazil’s ability to stop public spending in December sent their currency, the real, to register minimums against the dollar.
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