Brazil resists the economic siege and keeps the course

Concession of visa Haddad exposes momentary relief in the midst of an offensive that mixes political retaliation and economic war against Brazil

The news of the visa concession to Minister Fernando Haddad in the United States should not be read as a gesture of goodwill or diplomatic normality. It should be understood by what it truly is: the momentary evasion of a manufactured crisis, a breathing in an asymmetrical war that the administration of Republican Donald Trump moves not only against the Lula administration, but against the sovereignty itself and the democratic project of Brazil. Relief in Planalto corridors is legitimate, but is symptomatic of a deeply degraded picture in bilateral relations, where the fulfillment of a basic protocol-the United Nations headquarters-becomes a source of celebration.

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This seemingly bureaucratic episode is the tip of an iceberg of hostilities it has, like its main and threatening body, the 50% tariff Tax to Brazilian exports, which completes a month as a declared act of economic and political aggression. Trump, in his characteristically Brushi style and contrary to international law, did not hide the real motivations.

The fallacy of the American “commercial deficit” – denied by the $ 410 billion deficit accumulated by Brazil In the 15 -year bilateral relationship – it only serves as a smoke curtain for what your letter to President Lula explained: a retaliation for daring to submit to his ideological ally, Jair Bolsonaro, for crimes of attempted coup and abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law.

We are, therefore, in the face of an unprecedented and dangerous scenario. For the first time in recent history, an American president openly uses trade war instruments as a coercion weapon to directly interfere with the internal judicial affairs of a large sovereign nation. It is an attack that goes far beyond the economic; It is an attack on the backbone of democracy: the independence and authority of the judiciary. By punishing Brazil for following his laws, Trump positions himself not as a leader of a partner nation, but as a guarantor of coup factions, an agent of an empire that does not tolerate the autonomy of his vassals.

Federal Police investigations, which culminated in the indictment of Bolsonaro and his son, exiled deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, opened the mechanism behind this hybrid war. They reveal a harmful connection between the US extreme, articulated around Trump, and the scholarship sectors who, defeated at the polls and cornered by the law, operate behind the scenes to focus on the country from abroad.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, acting as a chaos lobbyist on American soil, is the visceral link of this alliance against Brazilian sovereignty. Tariff is not a republican state policy; It is the materialization of personal and ideological revenge, a project of global power of the ultra -right that elected Brazil as its main target.

The effects of this aggression are concrete and painful. The decree of Economic emergency in Cearástate where more than 90% of exports to the US was reached, it is not a metaphor. It is the reality of factories that paralyze, of jobs that evaporate, of families that see their livelihood threatened by the authoritarian lust of a foreign tycoon.

In Petrolina (PE), the export window for 2,500 mango and 700 grape containers is under imminent risk, threatening a third of the population living on fruit growing. In Franca (SP), the capital of footwear, companies that depend entirely on the American market, they face the abyss, endangering thousands of jobs. They are whole communities transformed into hostages of a geopolitical dispute they have not chosen.

Given this siege scenario, the Lula government’s response has been remarkable and must be recognized as a milestone in the affirmation of national sovereignty. THE Sovereign Brazil Plana robust package of R $ 30 billion in lines of credit, restitution of taxes and support for internal marketing is much more than an emergency economic policy. It is an act of resistance.

It is the clear demonstration that the Brazilian State will not capitulate, will not abandon its producers and will not let their people pay the price of external aggression alone. The articulation with BNDES, which injected another R $ 10 billion, and the mobilization to buy surplus production are actions of a government that understands its role as driver and protector of the national economy in times of crisis.

The market diversification strategy, accelerating negotiations with the European Union and expanding sales to China and Argentina, is another fundamental pillar of this sovereign resistance. It shows that Brazil will not bow to a commercial monopoly.

The 18.5% drop in US exports in August is significant, but the resilience of a growth of 3.9% in total exports proves the solidity of this strategy. We are redesigning the map of our economic alliances, not on a whim, but out of imperative need before a partner who has proved predatory and insecure.

The granting of the visa to Haddad, therefore, does not erase this framework of conflict. She just advances a climb. It is a reminder that we are under the constant target of an unpredictable and hostile administration that treats diplomacy as an extension of its internal cultural wars. Brazilian sovereignty is not measured by Washington’s benevolence to grant visas; It is measured by our ability to resist intimidation, to protect our population, to defend our institutions, and to follow our own course, even under the clenched fire.

The moment requires more than relief. It requires surveillance, national unity and unshakable firmness. Trump’s war against Brazil is the war of autocracy against democracy, the whim against the law, of the empire against the nation.

And our response, through economic resistance, astut diplomacy and uncompromising defense of our right to exist as a sovereign country, is writing a new chapter in the history of Latin America: the one in which the South American giant refuses to be a pawn in the plaid of hegemonic interests and erect, sovereign, to dictate his own destiny.