Amid rising diplomatic tensions between the two countries, the Brazilian government has summoned the country’s ambassador to Argentina, Julio Bitelli, for consultations in Brasilia. According to Itamaraty, Brazil’s foreign ministry, this is not a formal protest against Argentina, as summoning an ambassador for consultations is usually perceived, but rather a need for Brazil to better understand the situation it is currently experiencing with its neighbor.
Since the election of far-right radical Javier Milei as Argentina’s new president last December, relations between South America’s two largest economies have been deteriorating by the month. Following the election campaign that brought him to Argentina’s presidency, Milei called Lula a “thief,” “corrupt,” and “communist,” and invited former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro over the current Lula da Silva. Relations between the two regional giants have become quite tense, and this is reflected in countless areas beyond diplomacy.
Earlier this month, Miley launched another personal attack on Lula, days before attending a summit of the Latin American far right promoted by former President Jair Bolsonaro and held in the Brazilian city of Balneario Camboriú, Santa Catarina state, with his son Eduardo Bolsonaro. The Argentine was expected to use the radical gathering to launch new and perhaps more vicious attacks on the Brazilian president, but perhaps because he was on Brazilian soil, Miley held back.
But his presence in Brazil on the 7th to attend a conservative summit proved to be another source of tension between the two countries, as Miley simply ignored the Brazilian authorities during his short stay. Worst of all for Brazilian diplomacy, Javier Miley skipped the summit of heads of state of Mercosur, the South American political and economic bloc, which took place on the 7th and 8th in Paraguay, another country that shares borders with Argentina and Brazil, in order to attend a meeting of right-wing extremists.
Javier Miley has always said that he is against Argentina’s participation in Mercosur, which was included in the bloc a few weeks before the elections in Argentina under pressure from Lula da Silva, who is trying to help the then President of Argentina and candidate for re-election Alberto Fernandez, his friend, and has already threatened several times to exclude your country from the organization. So far it has not done so, but on the other hand, and this greatly irritated Lula da Silva, who now presides over the bloc, it prevented Mercosur from adopting the social incentives and human rights protection measures proposed by Mercosur. Brazilian
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha (Correspondent in Brazil)
Source: CM Jornal
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