Brazil plans to mend relations with Cuba, a senior diplomatic official says

[Judi Lynn]

The move will reverse the deterioration in relations with Havana that took place under the administration of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

21 AUGUST 2023BY STAFF REPORTER

Business and political relations between Brazil and Cuba will be restored, the Reuters news agency reports, citing a senior Brazilian foreign policy official.

Celso Amorim, a diplomatic adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (popularly known as Lula), met with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana recently and said: “We want to make the relationship between Brazil and Cuba one of great friendship.”

Ties between the two countries were frayed under Lula’s predecessor, the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. In the first year of Bolsonaro’s administration, 2019, Brazil voted for the first time against a UN resolution calling for an end to the US economic blockade of Cuba.

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[Marcus IM]

1. Strange that the RW govt's blockade Cuba?

I really wish the USA would exit that camp.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It was a surprise that some Brazilians in the legislature pulled that off in spite of Balsonaro!

Wouldn't have thought they could!