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Bolsonaro’s son compared Argentina to Venezuela

Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Twitter, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, on Saturday lashed out at the decision of the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, to declare public services for cell phones, pay TV and the provision of internet. “The Venezuelanization (sic) of the Argentina continues, “Eduardo Bolsonaro, president of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, wrote on social networks.

The text appears precisely when the governments of Argentina and BrazilMercosur’s main partners are at the best moment in the last nine months of diplomatic thaw, starting with President Bolsonaro’s meeting on Wednesday with the Argentine ambassador in Brasilia, Daniel Scioli.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, considered one of the mainstays of the ideological extremist wing of the Government that is losing ground in the distribution of power in the Planalto Palace, again today referred to Argentina and tried to link the Government of the Frente de Todos with Venezuela.

“The Argentina of Fernández and (Cristina Fernández de) Kirchner is taking measures similar to those of Venezuela under (Hugo) Chávez and (Nicolás) Maduro,” said the Brazilian deputy, who said that his criticism is so that Brazil “never takes that road”.

According to the deputy, at first the population is in favor of the measure “but in a second moment the companies escape the country because no one is going to invest where they run the risk, depending on the President’s mood, of having their company overnight practically confiscated by the State “.

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The statement comes a day after Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo offered a lunch at the Itamaraty Palace to the new ambassador Daniel Scioli, as part of the restart of direct and official talks. “With Scioli,” Araújo wrote in his networks, “we fully agreed on a constructive approach to relations focused on increasing trade, external Mercosur negotiations, cooperation in energy, infrastructure, security and technology.”

Scioli called for a greater commercial flow and openness for products from the Argentine regional economies that allow balancing the binational balance. Scioli met on Wednesday at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia for an hour with Jair Bolsonaro, who agreed to work for a summit with Fernández as part of the celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Iguazú Declaration, which the former presidents signed. José Sarney and Raúl Alfonsín, on November 30, 1985.

In 2005, former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Néstor Kirchner decreed that November 30 be the day of friendship between the two nations. After being Argentina’s main trading partner for almost two decades, during the pandemic, Brazil left that position to China for three months, which at the same time has been Brazil’s main buyer since 2009.

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Through the official corridor of the thaw in bilateral relations after Bolsonaro campaigned for the defeated former president Mauricio Macri, the president of Brazil has ordered his ministers to facilitate a round of consultations with Scioli from the next few days.

The first on the list is Tereza Cristina Dias, the Minister of Agriculture, of the right-wing Democrats, who according to Scioli is key to the agri-food agenda that Minister Felipe Solá prints to the Foreign Ministry.

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