RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, September 25th, described President Jair Bolsonaro’s speech at the UN General Assembly as a “planetary embarrassment” that “harms the image of Brazil throughout the world”.
In an interview with the Efe Agency in Madrid, where she has a political agenda this week, Dilma argued that the Amazon is a heritage of Brazil and also of humanity, unlike what Bolsonaro said on Tuesday in New York. However, she took a stand against any international intervention in the world’s largest rainforest, classifying this type of action as a “disservice”.
The former president, who was impeached in 2016, also acknowledged that the Brazilian left-wing is struggling to coordinate its efforts, but is starting to react to the potential negative consequences of Bolsonaro’s government, which she described as “neo-fascist,” with a “humiliating” subordination to the United States.
Rousseff further said that Lula is the main representative of the opposition in Brazil today, and that “nowhere in the world” does a party with more popular support renounce its prominence in favor of another with fewer votes.
Source: EFE