Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva affirmed on Monday his commitment that Brazil and Argentina will once again have a trade exchange similar to the one they had in 2010, when they exceeded 40 billion US dollars (37 billion euros).
«In 2003, bilateral Brazil-Argentina trade was just US$7 billion (€6.4 billion). In 2010, we reached US$40 billion. Now, we are back to half of that,» the Brazilian president highlighted in a message on the social network Twitter.
«We will work to return to at least 40 billion. Let our relationship not only be commercial, let our differences remain only in soccer and let’s build a strong commercial, political and social alliance», added Lula da Silva, who is in Buenos Aires, a city that is hosting the summit of countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
In this sense, the Brazilian president said that the former president Jair Bolsonaro led the country to a setback that he would never have imagined over four years.
Thus, he reiterated that Bolsonaro «took the initiative to isolate himself from the world, in four years he did not receive anyone or visit anyone». Likewise, according to Lula da Silva, there would have been a kind of «blockade of humanity against Brazil», as reported by the agency Télam.
For this reason, he emphasized that his visit to Buenos Aires serves to tell the Argentine people that «Brazil is back», all this in the company of his Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernández.
«We are going together to strengthen and rebuild Mercosur, even with the participation of Bolivia», he exclaimed, while former Bolivian President Evo Morales was at his side.
The Brazilian president has also bet on recreating the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), stressing that alone, the Latin American states are weak.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
