Businessmen aligned with the Bolsonaro government have been demonstrating against the war in Ukraine in a movement opposite to the orientation pointed out so far by the Brazilian president.
The strongest criticism comes from Madero’s owner, Junior Durski, who has ties to the region and brings Ukrainian and Polish recipes to the menu. The businessman published a message on social media saying that the war is absurd, insane and senseless.
“This Russian president is inhumane. Let’s prepare to do our part, to welcome our Ukrainian brothers with open arms, offer support, assistance and employment to those fleeing the war and immigrating to Brazil, exactly as the Brazilians did with ours. ancestors. May God have mercy on our Ukrainian brothers,” Durski wrote.
Salim Mattar, founder of Localiza, who once held a secretariat in the Bolsonarista administration, also took to social media to say that wars are unacceptable these days and represent the failure of dialogue.
“Leaders make decisions that generate war, which, as a result, destroy assets and cost the lives of the population. The marks of the trauma of a war last for many years and some can be eternal”, Mattar said on the internet.
Sino-Brazilian businessman Winston Ling, known as the man who introduced Paulo Guedes to Bolsonaro in the 2018 campaign, made fun of the war to defend harmony between countries.
Ling, who invests in business related to women’s beauty contests, posted a photo on the internet of two women sitting next to each other and smiling at each other.
In the image, one of them wears a miss belt from Russia and the other, from Ukraine. The businessman put a caption saying that this is how things should be.
Bolsonaro has spared Russian President Vladimir Putin from criticism and says it is an exaggeration to speak of massacre in this war.
He even visited his Russian counterpart a week before the start of the war, on the grounds of promoting trade ties with Moscow, and said this Sunday (27th) that Brazil must remain neutral. He also said that it is necessary to have responsibility in business with Russia and that Brazil depends on fertilizers.
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