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Brazil is under attack by administration Trump. The first blow, the tariff, produced contradictory effects on the national political environment, causing our tensioned political scale to lean in favor of President lula [[1]]. The second, addressed to seven STF ministers adn with more gravity to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, was ineffective to slow the imminent conviction of former President Bolsonaro for the directist of January 2023 [[1]].
For the government, it has been arduous to deal with the daily humiliation of an embassy who, without even having an ambassador in office, reiterates attacks against the country’s authorities, his political system and his judiciary [[1]]. For most Brazilians, it causes more amazement that almost 40% of our fellow citizens are favorable to the aggressions, which have the help of at least two influential Brazilians in national politics – Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro and blogger Paulo Figueredo [[1]].
It is indeed not easy to understand how patriotism preached in the country is so empty, nor as part of the country’s economic elite supports measures contrary to its economic interests. This ideological eagerness that lacks consistency and consistency is surprising. The recent attack on Brazilian health authorities seems to be inserted in new approaches to aggravate the country’s political polarization, recovering an important flag of the Brazilian far-right, related to the presence of cuban doctors in the Mais Médicos program, from 2013 to 2017.
On August 13, Donald Trump’s management announced the revocation of visas from Mozart Júlio Tabosa Sales, current secretary of Specialized Health Care of the Ministry of Health, and Alberto Kleiman, former server of the same ministry [[1]]. The justification of the decision, pronounced on social networks by the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is their active participation in the process of elaboration and execution of the Mais Médicos program in brazil.
The program is cited as a “diplomatic fraud” of cuba, in which there would be forced labor export to other countries [[1]]. On August 15, Mais Médicos was again evoked to justify the suspension of visas of the wife and daughter of the Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha.
Brazil occupies the eastern part of south america and, with an area of 3,286,470 square miles (8,511,965 square kilometers), is the fifth largest country in the world [[1]]. It borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador. Brazil has a population of more than 212 million people (in 2024),making it the seventh most populous country in the world and the most populous nation in South America [[3]]. The national capital is Brasília,a planned city atop the Brazilian highlands.
