The president of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, This Wednesday he demanded an apology from his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, whom he blamed for having said “a lot of nonsense.” In an interview with the UOL website, Lula clarified that she had not yet spoken to Milei because she believes that the Argentine president has to apologize to him and to Brazil.
“I did not speak with the president of Argentina because I believe that He must apologize to Brazil and to me. He said a lot of nonsense. I just want him to apologize. I love Argentina, it is a country that I like very much, it is a very important country for Brazil, and Brazil is very important for Argentina. It is not a president of the Republic who is going to create discord between Brazil and Argentina”was the phrase he pronounced this morning, published Infobae.
“The Brazilian and Argentine people are older than the presidents. They want to live well, they want to live in peace. “If the president of Argentina wants to govern Argentina, that’s fine, let him not try to govern the world.”he added in an interview with the UOL portal.
The Argentine government has already responded. “The President has not done anything that he has to regret“said this morning the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, at the morning press conference at the Casa Rosada, in Buenos Aires.
Milei, an ally of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, He carried out a series of attacks against Lula during his campaign for the presidency of Argentina. So, He called him a communist, thief and corruptreported this Wednesday an information cable from the Reuters news agency.
President Javier Milei has confronted several leaders from the region and Europe
That is something that Milei had also done before with other leaders in the region and Europe. Gustavo Petro from Colombia received similar qualifications; Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico.
Meanwhile, Milei He was never soft on China and strongly attacked Begoña Gómez, wife of the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez.
Recently, however, he was involved in a counterattack when he gave up providing concrete help to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to witness his inauguration on December 10, 2023. It turned out to be a striking case, since Milei’s reversal occurred after a call for attention from the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
With information from Noticias Argentinas and Reuters.
