Sérgio Moro: 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...
(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.
Sérgio Moro: Were I irrational, I would vote against the nomination of all the ambassadors, but here I make the distinction, which is a necessary distinction, between the qualified corps of the Itamaraty and the tragedy that the current Government’s presidential diplomacy represents.