35. ve 39. Brezilya devlet başkanı
China, Brazil to launch 24/7 disaster early warning satellite for South America
After almost four decades of international cooperation in space affairs, Brazil and China have unveiled details of a new project to launch a powerful meteorological and environmental satellite. It will be capable of monitoring the whole of South America, according to the space sciences department at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Adenilson Roberto da Silva, general coordinator of engineering and technology with the INPE, said the satellite would provide “improved weather...
Çin ve Brezilya'dan Güney Amerika'ya 7/24 Afet Uyarı UydusuABD-Brezilya hattında vize krizi
ABD, Brezilya'nın Washington Büyükelçisi Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti'nin vizesini iptal etti. Kararın, diplomatik vize anlaşmazlığı ve ABD'nin büyükelçi atamasının geciktirildiği gerekçesiyle alındığı belirtildi. ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı, kararın Brezilya'nın geçen ay iki Amerikalı diplomata vize vermemesi ve ABD Başkanı Donald Trump'ın Brezilya Büyükelçisi adayının onay sürecini askıda tutmasına karşılık mütekabiliyet ilkesi çerçevesinde alındığını bildirdi. Associated Press'e (AP) konuşan bakanlık yetkilileri, Brezilya Devlet Başkanı Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva'ya adım atması için zaman tanımak amacıyla bu kararın birkaç kez ertelendiğini, ancak beklenen adımın atılmaması üzerine yürürlüğe konulduğunu kaydedildi. Yetkililer, Brezilya'nın uygun adımları atması ve Trump'ın büyükelçi adayını kabul etmesi halinde kararın hızla geri çekilebileceğini ifade etti. Ayrıca, yetkililer, vize iptaline rağmen Büyükelçi Viotti'nin ABD'den sınır dışı edilmediğini aktardı. BREZİLYA VE ABD ARASINDAKİ GERİLİM Brezilya yönetiminin, Trump'ın Brasilia Büyükelçisi adayı Danny Perez’in atamasını 4 Ekim'de yapılacak seçimler sonrasına kadar askıya alması yönündeki tutumu iki ülke arasında krize yol açmıştı. Brezilya, söz konusu büyükelçi adayının onayını geciktirmenin yanı sıra, geçen ay ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığının Demokrasi, İnsan Hakları ve Çalışma Bürosu Asistanı Riley Barnes ile üst düzey bir yardımcısına da vize vermemişti. Bu kararın, ABD'li diplomatların Devlet Başkanı Lula'yı veya seçim sürecini eleştireceğine dair haberlerin ardından alındığı bildirilmişti. ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı ise bu iddiaları reddederek, iki diplomatın 27-30 Temmuz tarihlerinde seçim dürüstlüğü, dini özgürlükler ve ifade özgürlüğü konularını görüşmek üzere yapacağı ziyaretin rutin olduğunu ve "demokratik bir ülkenin seçimlerini sabote etme planı" yönündeki iddiaların asılsız olduğunu savunmuştu.
Telephone conversation with President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the initiative of the Brazilian side. The leaders discussed ways to further strengthen the bilateral relationship in various areas, following up on the meeting of the Russian-Brazilian High-Level Commission on Cooperation held earlier this year, as well as other contacts. Particular attention is to be paid to expanding and diversifying bilateral trade. There was an exchange of views on current international issues, including the situation surrounding Ukraine. Vladimir Putin thanked his Brazilian counterpart for his efforts to help find a political and diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict. The two leaders confirmed that Russia and Brazil have identical or similar stances on many important global issues. They agreed to maintain close coordination at the UN and on other multilateral platforms.
At 80, Brazil’s Lula launches campaign for fourth term to face Bolsonaro’s son
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, said on Sunday he was “in great shape” as he launched his candidacy for October elections, with pressure from US President Donald Trump’s administration looming over the campaign. A titan of the Latin American left, Lula is seeking a fourth and final term in office in a campaign casting him as a safe pair of hands in turbulent times and a bulwark against the global rise of the far-right. While no one mentioned Trump by name at the Workers’ Party...
Brazil turns to China trade deal after Trump’s tariffs, as years of resistance end
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva agreed on Sunday night to accelerate negotiations for a trade agreement between China and Mercosur, a striking reversal for Brasilia, which for years led resistance to such a deal in the South American bloc. The two leaders spoke by telephone for more than an hour, according to a statement from the Brazilian presidency, and “coincided on the importance of speeding up the talks for a Mercosur-China agreement that...
Trump, tariffs and ties with China at stake in Brazilian presidential race
With less than three months to go until Brazil’s presidential election, China is closely watching a high-stakes political duel between a Beijing-friendly incumbent and his pro-Washington challenger. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who maintains close ties with Beijing, is seeking a fourth non-consecutive term. His rival, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro – son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was jailed last year for attempting a military coup – was confirmed on Saturday as the...
Brezilya'dan ABD'ye diplomatik rest! İki üst düzey yetkiliye vize verilmedi
Brezilya Devlet Ajansı Agencia Brasil'in haberine göre, ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı Demokrasi, İnsan Hakları ve Çalışma Bürosu Müsteşar Yardımcısı Riley Barnes ile aynı birimde görev yapan Müsteşar Yardımcısı Vekili Samuel Samson'ın vize başvuruları Brezilya hükümeti tarafından reddedildi. Brezilya Dışişleri Bakanlığı, ABD'li yetkililerin seçim sürecinde ifade özgürlüğüne ilişkin konuları görüşmeyi amaçladığını, ancak söz konusu ziyaretin gerekçesini uygun bulmadığı için vize başvurularını reddettiğini bildirdi. Yerel basına göre, Brezilya hükümeti, ziyaretin seçim sürecini siyasallaştırabileceği gerekçesiyle ABD'li yetkililerin ülkeye girişine izin vermedi. BREZİLYA SEÇİMLERİ ÖNCESİ KRİZ Haberde, Brezilya'nın seçimlerde uluslararası gözlemcileri kabul etme geleneğine sahip olduğu ancak ABD'li yetkililerin gözlemci olarak değil, farklı bir amaçla ülkeye gelmek istediğinin öne sürüldüğü belirtildi. Eski Devlet Başkanı Jair Bolsonaro'nun oğlu Senatör Flavio Bolsonaro, 4 Ekim'de yapılacak seçimlerde yeniden aday olan Devlet Başkanı Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva'nın en güçlü rakibi olarak gösteriliyor. Vize talebinin, Flavio Bolsonaro'nun hafta içinde başkent Brazilya'da yaklaşık 40 ülkenin temsilcileriyle yaptığı toplantıda, Brezilya'daki elektronik seçim sisteminin Venezuela merkezli "Smartmatic" şirketi tarafından sağlandığını herhangi bir kanıt sunmadan öne sürmesinin hemen ardından gelmesi dikkati çekti. Yüksek Seçim Mahkemesi ise bu iddiayı yalanlayarak, bahsi geçen şirketin Brezilya seçim sisteminde kullanılan elektronik seçim sandıklarını veya yazılımları hiçbir zaman tedarik etmediğini belirtti. 30 bin kişi sokağa çıkacak! Avrupa'nın tatil cennetinde kriz: 'Turistler evinize dönün' Yunanistan'ı korkutan F-35 ihtimali! Türkiye ile Çin'i kıyasladılar: 6 tane bile yeter
Brazil’s right-wing party nominates Bolsonaro son to battle Lula
SOA PAULO – Brazil’s right-wing Liberal Party on Saturday formally nominated Flavio Bolsonaro, a 45-year-old senator and son of imprisoned ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, as its candidate in the October presidential election. He is set to face off against leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, who is seeking a fourth term and has gained
Trump's Brazil tariffs could boomerang on Flavio Bolsonaro
Late last week, the Trump administration imposed what Brazilian officials had spent weeks bracing for: a fresh 25% tariff on most Brazilian exports, set to take effect July 22. The United States Trade Representative (USTR) framed the move as the conclusion of a Section 301 investigation. This provision of the Trade Act of 1974 empowers USTR to investigate a country’s trade practices and recommend tariffs if it finds them unreasonable or discriminatory. USTR cited Brazil’s digital-payments system Pix, its ethanol tariffs, deforestation, and Brasília's refusal to bend to U.S. tech platforms on content moderation as reasons for the new punitive measures. Although these levies apply to a relatively small portion of everything Brazil sells abroad, they stand on firm legal ground and will likely be harder to reverse than last year’s blanket 50% tariff, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in February. In a nod to the domestic political cost of Trump’s trade wars, staples like coffee, beef, and orange juice were notably excluded from new tariffs, but apparel, steel, sugar, and paper were not. The White House says Brazil has rigged the game against American companies. Brazilian officials tell a different story. Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said American negotiators wanted the “total, unrestricted, and exclusive opening” of entire sectors of the Brazilian economy with no reciprocal benefit for Brazilian businesses. Vieira also noted that 76% of American imports enter Brazil tariff-free and that the United States runs a trade surplus with Brazil. What actually irritated Washington, Brazil’s chief diplomat claimed, was the fact that his country “did not bow” to demands that would have amounted to “capitulation.” Indeed, trade balances are not plausibly what this spat is really about. It has to do with something closer to what Secretary of State Marco Rubio all but admitted when he accused President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of putting “his own ego” ahead of a deal, framing the tariffs as “the price” Brazil must pay for failing to negotiate “in good faith.” For this administration, any other country’s assertion of its own interest, be it over payment infrastructure, biofuel policy, or environmental regulation, is an affront requiring punishment. Trump may have been reined in by the Supreme Court in last year’s trade war against Brazil, and the U.S. president may have since established a personal rapport with Lula, but the new round of tariffs makes clear that the administration has not rethought its fundamentally hostile policy toward Latin America’s largest nation. There’s an irony in Washington’s chosen target, Pix. The payment system, which the Trump administration frames as a protectionist plot against Visa and Mastercard, is in reality a wildly successful piece of free public infrastructure that has rapidly expanded financial access to Brazil’s poor and informal workers. Washington’s objection to it is nakedly about market access for American financial firms, dressed up as a fairness complaint. Ethanol is much the same: Washington complains about Brazil’s 18% tariff on American ethanol even as the U.S. taxes sugar imported above quota — the tier covering most Brazilian sugar — at an effective rate near 100%, roughly five times steeper. That’s no small detail, since Brazilian mills can shift the same cane crop toward whichever product pays better; squeeze ethanol, and sugar is the natural fallback, except when Washington taxes it even harder. These tariffs have entered force despitedozens of reported attempts by Brasília to reach members of the Trump administration to forestall them and enter serious trade negotiations. From Brazil’s perspective, the U.S. is refusing to even acknowledge the country’s legitimate trade interests. The Trump administration’s trade war is inherently politicized, aiming less at correcting specific commercial grievances than at disciplining a government Washington has never been fully comfortable with — because it is led by a progressive elder statesman; because it has resisted American pressure over the criminal prosecution of its most recent former president, Jair Bolsonaro; and because it insists on an independent foreign policy that includes deepening ties with China and the BRICS bloc. Speaking of Bolsonaro, there’s a reason Washington’s tariffs and the Brazilian presidential race have become inseparable. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the convicted former president and Lula’s likely opponent in the October election, visited Trump, Rubio, and other senior officials in Washington in May. He returned to lobby USTR directly again in July, this time asking for a 180-day delay so the tariffs wouldn’t land before Brazilians voted. His argument was candid about the politics involved: imposing the tariffs now, he told American officials, would hand Lula “precisely the political victory” the president’s campaign has been “engineering.” Lula, for his part, has accused the senator, whose brother advocated for Trump’s trade war against Brazil last year, of committing “yet another act of treason against the Fatherland.” Whatever happened in private discussions, the tariffs arrived on schedule, four months before an election in which the Bolsonaro family’s Washington connections have proven politically damaging. A Genial/Quaest poll released the same day as the tariffs found 51% of Brazilians believe the younger Bolsonaro encouraged Washington’s pressure campaign to damage Lula’s government, up from 47% a month earlier, against just 30% who accept his account that he lobbied against the tariffs. Forty-two percent said the new tariffs made them more likely to vote for Lula; only 27% said the same about Flávio. If the tariffs were meant to tip the electoral scales toward a more pliant government, the evidence so far suggests they may in fact be validating Lula’s argument that Washington is leaning on trade policy to interfere in Brazil’s domestic politics. The Lula administration has made clear it won’t accept Washington’s terms. Brazilian voters will have their own say on that stance this October, in a presidential election in which Washington’s pressure campaign is a live issue. Washington may believe only American interests are legitimate. Brazilians, for now, still get to decide for themselves.