The final report of the cabinet of the transitional government states that the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) made a “strategic error” by isolating Venezuela and turning “South America into the stage of the geopolitical dispute between the US, Russia and China.”
According to the document obtained by Sheetwhich was forwarded to future ministers, to president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and his deputy, Geraldo Alckmin (PSB), the Bolsonaro government discouraged Brazil’s integration with its neighboring countries, which resulted in the “dismantling of Unasur, in the exit from CELAC and in the growth of forces favorable to the dismantling of Mercosur as a customs union.”
The future chancellor, Mauro Vieira, has already stated that rapprochement with the countries of Latin America will be a priority for the Itamaraty during the Lula government. Brazil abandoned CELAC during the administration of former Chancellor Ernesto Araújo and will now return to the organization, which should become one of the main forums for Brazilian foreign policy, alongside the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO). Vieira also said that relations with Venezuela will be reestablished.
The future Lula government, as well as previous PT governments, believes it is important to maintain “channels of dialogue” with Chavismo and with the dictator Nicolás Maduro to help in the political pacification of the country. “From a catalyst for integration processes, the country has become a factor of regional instability”, says the report.
The document also criticizes “the disastrous participation in ultraconservative alliances” — the Bolsonarist Itamaraty has aligned itself with countries like Poland and Hungary, in a “western Christian” alliance in multilateral forums on issues such as reproductive health and women’s rights.
The transitional government claims that Brazil, by adopting denialist positions, “lost leadership in environmental issues, challenged efforts to combat the pandemic and promoted a view of human rights inconsistent with its legal order”.
Former Chancellor Ernesto Araújo was skeptical about the existence of climate change and thought it was just another globalist strategy to interfere with the sovereignty of nations. He used, for example, the neologism “comunavirus” to refer to an alleged “ideological virus” that overlaps with the coronavirus and makes “wake up to the communist nightmare”.
Bolsonaro, also a Covid denier, led Brazil to a sharp turn in its positions at the UN, failing to condemn, for example, Israeli settlements and the American embargo on Cuba.
The working group closes its diagnosis warning about Brazil’s debt with international organizations, currently at R$ 5.5 billion. The debt “represents serious damage to the country’s image and its ability to act and severely compromises its foreign policy.”
“If a minimum amount of this debt is not paid yet in the current fiscal year, there will be loss of vote in organizations such as the UN, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO),” says the document.
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