‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro | Brazil

SIlvana Marques was one of the thousands of Brazilians who flocked to the most famous art museum of São Paulo in the afternoon last week. However, the 51 -year -old teacher would admire the Sis London landscapes in MASP’s new Monet retrospective. Donald had come to add a protest in Trump.

Under the ruthless Hulk of the museum, Marques saw the US president’s cardboard legend and took a photo with his phone before the Trump Kuk was set on fire. “LARANJão SafadoBig He wrote on Instagram under his photograph translated as Big Orange Dirtbag. The nearby demonstrators lifted a red poster into the air: “Try a nice try Trump. But we’re not afraid. “

The rally was a response to Trump’s decision to start a politically motivated trade war against South America’s largest economy to help the right -wing ally, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro last week.

Bolsonaro can be sentenced to up to 43 years of imprisonment if it was found guilty of declaring a coup attempt after losing the 2022 Presidential elections. It is expected to be convicted and convicted by the Supreme Court in the coming weeks.

On July 9, Trump wrote to request that Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva would decrease the charges against Bolsonaro and to announce that he would apply 50% tariff to Brazil imports. “[This] A witch hunt that must end immediately! ”Thundered Trump is the most important international supporter of Long Bolsonaro.

Apparently the US President was waiting for the 70 -year -old Bolsonaro, who was banned from being published in the next year’s elections, to improve his appearance. Flávio, son of Bolsonaro’s Senator, offered Lula’s administration an amnesty to his father, and urged Trump’s ultimatum to enter the cave immediately. Flávio Bolsonaro likened the Brazil’s foresight at the end of the Second World War, with the subjugation of the US B-29 bombardment planes. Bolsonaro said, öntem It is up to us to show responsibility for avoiding the two atomic bombs descending to Brazil, ”Bolsonaro said.

However, a week after Trump’s tariff announcement, Ploy seems to be bad backing. The Movement revived Bolsonaro’s leftist rivals, a leap in the Lula polls, and a large extent led to a wave of public anger that focused on the Bolsonaro clan, who spent themselves as nationalists who love flags.

“Jair Bolsonaro did not care about Brazil less. He is a fake patriotic”, conservative estado de são paulo newspaper Fumed TuesdayTo observe the desire of the former president to save his country into wolves if it means saving his own skin.

The newspaper’s editorial board instructed the conservatives to choose their sides: “Brazil or Bolsonaro. Two roads are opposite to the base.”

Eliane Cantanhêde, the columnist of Estado de São Paulo, saw three reasons behind Trump’s “inappropriate proposal”. He hoped to increase extreme right travelers in South America; Rishing China for participation in the region after the last BRICS Summit in Rio; And after entering his own imposed exile in the United States, do a personal favor to Eduardo, the son of Bolsonaro, who spent the authorities in Washington in recent months.

However, Cantanhêde believed that Trump’s “Megalomanyak” movement was Boomeranged, and gave Lula a golden opportunity to support the public by posing as a nationalist defender of Brazilian coffee producers and orange breeders.– Bolsonaro’s cattle farms and aircraft manufacturers in the face of anti-patriotic and self-serving exits against Trump.

“Lula was in the rope,” Cantanhêde said, emphasizing the increasing suspicions of the leftists about the falling ratings and the ability to win a fourth period next year. “Now they’re all smiling.”

Brazil’s largest trade partner, Beijing, said that Washington would celebrate because it damages the stance in the region. “Trump pushes the world into China’s lap, Cant said Cantanhêde.

Nicolás Saldías, a Latin American analyst in the Economist Intelligence Unit, admitted that Trump’s pro -Bolsonar intercession was a blessing for Lula, who wears a blue cover with the slogan “Brazil’s Brazilian Brazilians”.

Uruguayan-Canadal, Saldías remembered how Trump had raised his last elections for Tehdte’s threats and that Mark Carney once helped mark the Liberal Party. He suspected that Trump’s trade war against Brazil would have the effect of a similar “rally around the flag for Lula – at least in the short term.

“This will be useful for Lula, Sal Saldías said, how his ratings have already risen and the possibility of rising. “This is changing the game because now the advocate of Brazilian nationalism will be seen as a kind of progressive nationalism.”

Bolsonaros seems to realize that they have won their own goal. A resource close to the former President’s family told Reuters: “Bolsonaros realized the overwhelming weight of the cause of their cases and the excitement of attracting the attention of Trump in a short time.”

Bolsonaro on Tuesday insisted He opposed the tariffs that Lula accused the United States “provocation, and claimed that if“ freedom of speaking with Trump ”was given, he could correct at least some of the problem.

Protest Teacher Silvana Marques should not allow the determined Brazilian authorities to “crazy ına to Trump’s demands and Bolsonaro leave the hook. “We can’t let this happen,” he said, recalling the terrible consequences of prosecution of military leaders behind Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship.

Like many Brazilians, Marques – as he saw – he received a dim -view on how Bolsonaros encouraged Trump to his own countries to economic war.

“They are a treacherous family,” he said. “And the Americans should think: do we have to pay 50% more to defend this worn old horse for the things we import from Brazil?”