Brazil recalls ambassador to Argentina over Milei’s Bolsonaro rally speech

SAO PAULO : Brazil recalled its ambassador to Argentina for consultations Sunday following “insults” leveled by president Javier Milei against his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and others at a Sao Paulo political event, the foreign ministry said. The libertarian leader of Argentina referred to Brazil’s leftist incumbent president as a “convict” and a “thief”, without naming him explicitly, during an event on Saturday formally nominating right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro to run in upcoming elections.

Milei also referred to — without naming him directly — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes as “bald trash”.

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