In a brand new controversy towards Argentina, Brazilian MP Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, uploaded a map displaying the Malvinas Islands as “Falklands“.
This represents a tacit provocation, because the English title is utilized by the UK to designate the islands that Argentina has claimed sovereignty for many years. It additionally falls within the 12 months celebrating the 40th anniversary of the battle.
The disputed doc is similar map that has the hammer and sickle image stamped on the nations it claims are “communist,” the place it provides Colombia after Gustavo Petro’s victory within the presidential election.
The politician uploaded the map by which he states that the “communist” nations are within the area Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and now too Colombia.

Eduardo Bolsonaro printed a map referring to the Malvinas Islands because the Falklands. Photograph Twitter / Seize.
“The duty of Brazilian voters is rising. It not solely applies to Brazil, it applies to all the area,” wrote Bolsonaro’s son, clearly alluding to subsequent October’s elections within the nation the place his father is searching for re-election. election, though all polls listing the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva because the favorite.
In the identical spirit, the adviser for worldwide affairs to the Brazilian Presidency expressed himself, additionally on social media, Philip Martinsone other ideologue of the ultra-conservative motion that helps Bolsonaro.
“With the advance of the far left in Latin America, with back-to-back victories on the Sao Paulo Discussion board, our duty as Brazilians is bigger. Might God have mercy on us and provides us the situations to guard our nation and our folks,” the Bolsonaro collaborator stated.
Lengthy historical past of controversy
Final month, Eduardo Bolsonaro once more beat the federal government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, evaluating that as a result of very excessive inflation, “Argentina is on the way in which to the Venezuela of the South”.
“Argentina’s inflation for 2023 is already on the similar stage as Venezuela’s, as is financial intervention – for instance, the ban on meat exports till 2023 -” he began a tweet from his account @BolsonaroSP.
And he concluded: “Sadly, Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner’s Argentina is headed for the Venezuela of the South and that can have an effect on us right here.” He warned of the results on the Brazilian financial system.
The President’s son accompanied his publish with the picture of Fernández, the Vice President and Lula Da Silva holding arms, mimicking the picture of the previous Brazilian President of the PT together with the late Néstor Kirchner and Hugo Chávez. And likewise with vital headlines in the direction of the Argentine financial system printed in Veja journal.
It wasn’t the primary time the Brazilian politician had focused the Kirchner authorities, having stated “Argentina’s path may be very dangerous” and labeling the Okay “socialists”.
“Sadly, seen from the skin, Argentina’s path may be very dangerous. It breaks my coronary heart to say that. The way in which of Argentina is Venezuela. We elected Bolsonaro to keep away from this socialist hazard,” he burdened on the event.
Triumph of Gustavo Petro and defeat of the “Colombian Bolsonaro”
Within the second spherical of Colombia’s elections held this Sunday, Petro acquired 50.44% of the vote, in comparison with 47.31% he achieved Rodolfo Hernandeza businessman presenting himself as an unbiased beneath the umbrella of the League of Anti-Corruption Governors motion.
Hernández, 77, was in comparison with Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump forward of Colombia’s presidential election, by which he completed second on the primary poll.
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