If Cristina wins, Brazil and the United States will have problems

President Jair Bolsonaro told Dallas that Brazil and the United States "will have huge problems" if Cristina Fernández de Kirchner returned to the Argentine government. Argentina can become "a new Venezuela of the Southern Cone". "I will be going to Argentina soon, we will collaborate as much as possible without intervening in domestic politics, but knowing that if we have another Venezuela in the Southern Cone, the problems will be huge for us and for you," Bolsonaro said in a statement. speech. in Dallas after receiving the Personality of the Year award from the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce. Bolsonaro will visit Argentina on June 6 to meet President Mauricio Macri.

In his speech in Dallas, broadcast on Brazilian official television, he repeated what he said yesterday before former US President George W. Bush about the "risk" that Senator Fernandez wins the elections d & # 39; October.

In condemning the opposition Brazilian left in his speech, Bolsonaro warned that "Argentina was heading to a complicated place".

The Brazilian added: "Due to structural problems in the country, my friend Macri is facing difficulties and sees the possibility of the return of the previous president, a friend of the Workers Party of Brazil, (Hugo) Chávez, (Nicolás Maduro and Fidel Castro, "he told Dallas.

Bolsonaro said that the Brazilian PT "had more than the dream of stealing the country, he also wanted to steal freedom". In his speech, he also spoke of the strike and the protest by teachers on Wednesday in Brazil, which was the first demonstration against his government, which began on 1 January. "Universities, secondary and primary schools, as well as the media, are taken by the left," he said. Bolsonaro added that he "respects" and "admires" the United States, during his second trip in five months to that country, Brazil's second largest trading partner after China. Argentina is Brazil's third largest trading partner and the largest in Mercosur. Macri went to Bolsonaro on Jan. 16 at Plbadto Palace and the two presidents spoke by telephone last Tuesday. Significantly, Macri did not attend the inauguration of Bolsonaro on January 1st. Macri's distance gesture has been interpreted as an attempt not to be identified or "stuck" to the figure of the Brazilian far right. The constant setbacks suffered by the Brazilian since then seem to justify this distance.