The president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva He posted a suggestive photo in his X (former Twitter) account with a blue cap and a message that dictates that “Brazil is from the Brazilians”. He did it in the middle of a series of tense exchanges with USA after the president Donald Trump will announce the application of 50% tariffs to imported products from the Latin country.
“Or Brazil and two Brazilians,” says the cap he is using Da Silva in the photo in his original message. In the image it looks smiling and making a gesture with the hand that symbolizes “well” or “approved.”
Lula met with his ministers late on Wednesday and said on social networks that Tariffs would be answered with reciprocal measures. “Brazil is a sovereign country with independent institutions that will not accept to be controlled by anyone,” said the president on Wednesday in X (former Twitter).
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Lula answered Donald Trump for the threat of tariffs to the BRICS countries and called him “irresponsible”
The president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, firmly replied to his American pair, Donald Trump, after the threat of the latter around future tariffs for BRICS members. The South American cataloged this behavior as “wrong” and “irresponsible.”
The answer was given through a press conference, held within the framework of the BRICS Summit, the geopolitical block that concentrates more than half of the world’s population and approximately 40% of the global product.
There, Lula said that it seems “Very wrong and irresponsible a president who attacks others for digital platforms” and warned that, in case Trump fulfills his threat, The rest of the countries are entitled to the same way by “the law of reciprocity.”
Lula da Silva warned that a 50% reciprocal tariff will apply to the US, although he is willing to negotiate with Donald Trump
The president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, He said Thursday that he is willing to negotiate with the US, but warned that he will impose retaliation tariffs if his counterpart Donald Trump meets his promise of increasing import taxes by 50% due to the criminal trial in their predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
Lula said he will activate the Brazilian reciprocity law, approved by Congress earlier this year, if negotiations with the United States fail. “If there is no negotiation, the reciprocity law will be launched. If he charges us 50% (of tariffs), we will charge them 50%“Lula said in an interview.
Source: Ambito