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Lula Retracts Drug-Trafficking Remark as Brazil Sets Hard Agenda for Likely Trump Meeting

The expected Sunday talks in Kuala Lumpur will focus on the 50% U.S. tariffs that Brazil calls unjustified.

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Overview

  • Lula said his priorities for the talks are rolling back U.S. tariffs, lifting Magnitsky sanctions on Brazilian officials including Justice Alexandre de Moraes, and addressing recent American military operations in Latin America.
  • The 50% tariff package on many Brazilian imports remains in force after an initial 10% plus a 40% add-on, and Trump claimed it has “saved” U.S. cattle producers, with Brazilian beef excluded from tariff exemptions.
  • Brazil is pursuing options such as temporary suspension, gradual relief, or expanded product exemptions, while Lula argues U.S. trade data do not justify the measures.
  • Lula criticized unilateral U.S. strikes on suspected drug vessels near Venezuela and in the Eastern Pacific, as aide Celso Amorim warned that any external intervention in Venezuela could inflame South America; U.S. officials have reported multiple lethal strikes with dozens of fatalities.
  • After saying traffickers are also victims of users, Lula posted that it was a poorly phrased sentence and reaffirmed a clear stance against traffickers and organized crime.