Minister of Bolsonaro throws more firewood: Macron's wife "is really ugly"

he Minister of the Economy of Brazil, Paulo Guedes, reactivated the fight of President Jair Bolsonaro with his French counterpart after repeating the insults of the Brazilian leader against the wife of Emmanuel Macron. In a speech to businessmen in the northeastern city of Fortaleza, Guedes complained about media coverage of the Bolsonaro administration, saying that instead of informing about the progress of the country, he focused on the scandalous comments of the president.

"What I see in the newspapers is that he insulted [Michelle] Bachelet or who said that Macron's wife was ugly, "he said. "He said that and it's true: the woman is really ugly." While the audience laughed, the minister silenced them and said, laughing too: "There is no ugly woman, we only see women in a bad light."

The exchange of insults may cause damage in the real world, due to the current state of relations between Brazil and France. Macron has recently threatened to abandon the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur, the South American customs union, unless Brazil makes further efforts. to preserve the Amazon rainforest. While some other European leaders are in agreement with his idea of ​​abandoning the deal, Bolsonaro runs the risk of chasing out moderate European politicians who have not yet ratified the EU 's. agreement. Many German and Irish lawmakers are already hesitant to approve it.

Relations between Brazil and France began to collapse after Bolsonaro canceled at the last minute a meeting in Brasilia with the French Foreign Minister in order to get haircuts during from a Facebook Live show. Shortly after, on the eve of the G7 summit last month, Macron tweeted his concern over fires in the Amazon and demanded international intervention, which provoked an angry reaction from the Brazilian president.

Bolsonaro was removed from Facebook last week, "to avoid double interpretations", a comment to a meme in which one of his supporters was mocking Brigitte Macron's physique, comparing a photo in which she appears serious and down, with An image of the first Brazilian woman, Michele Bolsonaro, smiling in front of the Brazilian president on the day of its inauguration.

"Do you now understand why Macron attacks Bolsonaro?", Reads next to the photos, to which Bolsonaro replied: "Do not humiliate, man, ha ha." Macron described this comment as "extraordinarily disrespectful," although Bolsonaro denied that it was a misdemeanor. "I did not put this picture of his wife," he said.

On Monday, Bolsonaro opened another controversy by reluctantly rejecting the critics of Bachelet, currently High Commissioner for Human Rights. Bachelet "says that Brazil loses the democratic space, [pero] if the people of Pinochet had not defeated the left in 1973 and with him his father, Chile would be like Cuba today, "he said of Brigadier General Alberto Bachelet. The UN commissioner was arrested and tortured for opposing Pinochet's coup d'etat and died in prison in 1974. The former president was also tortured before he died. To be exiled.