Lula imposes an antidemocratic foreign policy in Brazil subjecting it to China and Russia

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) Through his visit to China, Brazil’s president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva has reminded the world that he is not a democratic leader but a populist politician with an antiimperialist discourse, promoter, and supporter of dictatorships. In order to favor Castrochavism’s interests in the region and as Brazil’s Head of State, by imposing an antidemocratic foreign policy he attempts to take his nation towards an allegiance with the most important dictatorships of the world, namely; China and Russia.

Lula started his visit to China questioning “the use of the U.S. Dollar as the global currency, just a few weeks after his government agreed with Peking to trade using their own currencies and to stop the use of the U.S. currency.” Afterwards, backing China’s proposal with respect to Russia’s invasion to Ukraine, he accepted to act -along with China- as a mediator for the resolution of the conflict and thereafter declared that “the United States should stop promoting the war and talk about peace,” with a similar allusion to the European Union.

Lula directly proposed that “Brazil and China enter into a partnership to balance the global geopolitics” and pointing to the United States, he remarked “no one is going to prohibit me” to the deepening of relations with China.

We are facing a milestone of change in Brazil’s foreign policy that, without a doubt, comes about on the fringes of the strategies of Brazil’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Brazilian Congress, and its own best interests.

The importance and seriousness of this new position rests on the fact that Lula is only following the policies of 21st Century Socialism -or Castrochavism- a consortium wherein he is an active member and a historic leader. By backing China and Russia’s dictatorships he is actually seeking support for Castrochavism’s dictatorships in the Americas, to cover up their crimes that he is an accomplice of (e.g., Lava Jato) and to reactivate the despicable narratives of the narco-States from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua.

Lula along with Fidel Castro is the creator of the Forum of Sao Paolo an undertaking birthed to sustain Cuba’s dictatorship at a time when the Berlin wall was falling and communism was being defeated with the implosion of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Forum of Sao Paolo ended up being the criminal arm of the Castroist -and later the Castrochavist- operations in the Americas and the world with terrorists, narcotics’ traffickers, and all sorts of shenanigans at the service of conspiracy, corruption, and impunity.

Lula’s approach in China is not Brazil’s approach, it is only the alignment of the Castrochavist chief -who wields the power of the most important country in Latin America- with the dictatorships who attempt to create a new global bipolarism, going from the confrontation of capitalism against communism to that of dictatorships against democracy.

With regard to the invasion of Russia to Ukraine, Lula has shattered Brazil’s self-proclaimed neutrality and has become an accomplice and abettor of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russia in Ukraine. He has abandoned the appropriateness of a Head of State for the obsequence of a subordinated militant to directives of defunct and defeated ideologies that nowadays are part of transnational organized crime. He has subordinated Brazil to China and Russia without a single benefit for Brazilians.

Embarrassing role for a president of a country as large as Brazil that deserves a better destiny and better representation, a president who must formulate and execute his country’s foreign policy on the basis of “interests and principles.” Brazil’s interests are determined by its development, influence, as well as its regional and global might; its principles have always been freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, private property and “order and progress” as its national flag proclaims it.

Lula’s actions are not due to Brazil’s interests, they are part of Castrochavism or 21st Century Socialism’s foreign policy that was eventually engineered in Cuba with the meddling of Russia and China. This is an interventionist effort on Brazil that pretends to reactivate a worldwide bipolarism with China as its head and Russia as its violent operator, with Iran as a terrorist threat over Israel and the free world, with North Korea as the detonator of permanent crises and with Castrochavism with the dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua as launching sites of attacks against Americas’ democracies.

The facade screen of concealment has fallen and the phase for direct attacks to seek a new bipolar world under the pretext of peace, to justify Russia’s defeat in its invasion to Ukraine, has started. The use of a counterfeited narrative of pacifism with an antiimperialist discourse and nowadays with an anti-dollarization campaign is to disguise the bankruptcy of dictatorial economies and to disguise dictatorships, crimes against humanity, and State-terrorism that exist in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and elsewhere.

*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas