Bolsonaro met with Bush and talked about preventing Cristina Kirchner from becoming president again

Jair Bolsonaro met with George W. Bush during his US tour and worried about the possible return of Cristina Kirchner to power.

May 16, 2019

The President of Brazil, Jair BolsonaroHe said that he spoke with the former US president George W. Bush in Dallas, Texas, on the importance of avoiding the possibility of a return to the head of the Argentine state of the opposition senator, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

"We have talked to Bush about the situation in Venezuela, but the most important thing is to avoid another goal, and that this goal against Argentina will return to Kirchner's hands," he said. Bolsonaro to Brazilian reporters covering his Texas tour.

When asked if the American had commented on the case, he stated that "because of the look that he showed, he accepted," according to the agency Brazilian private Estado.

Bolsonaro repeated, as he has done four times since the end of April, that an electoral victory of former President Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina "would provoke a new Venezuela in South America". And he said: "We would like Argentina not to back down on this ideological issue".

The former president met George W. Bush accompanied by his special adviser in international affairs, Filipe Martins, the Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo and the Minister of the Cabinet of Security institutional, the retired general Augusto Heleno.

The theme focused on the Sino-US trade war and possible investment in the energy sector of Texas businesses in Brazil, according to Brazilian government spokespeople.