Sérgio Moro: To conclude the absurdities of the presidential diplomacy, we witnessed a hypocritical reaction by President Lula to President Trump’s statement regarding the proceedings brought here in Brazil against former President Bolsonaro: Lula reacting in a manner, in my view, aimed at electoral gain, criticizing President Trump for his interference in internal affairs, but failing to look in the mirror, failing to acknowledge that he himself, not long ago, in addition to promoting the rescue of the corrupt First Lady of Peru, carried out that embrace and that affront to the Argentine judiciary by arguing that Cristina Kirchner would be the victim of some kind of persecution.
Sérgio Moro: Taken as a whole, Brazil has always been an ally of Western democracies; a country that, while allied to Western democracies, has always maintained important ties with countries in other regions of the world, including important commercial ties with China.
But President Lula’s new diplomacy is not one of neutrality; the new presidential diplomacy of President Lula is one of distancing Brazil from Western democracies and of an artificial and partisan antagonism toward the United States.
Sérgio Moro: We know that the PT and Lula have always been guided by anti‑American policy, as if the United States were the great villain of the century, and that they have this great fondness for dictatorships, such as the Cuban one...
Sérgio Moro: (A bell rings.) ... but President Lula’s diplomacy does not give him the right to drag Brazil away from our liberal, democratic traditions and from those convergent with other Western democracies.