Jair Bolsonaro's stay in the United States is about to end. This has been communicated by the former president of Brazil himself who, after a voluntary exile of three months to the United States, has anticipated his return to the Brazilian country to resume his political activity: "My mission is not over."
"It is not easy to be a politician, especially when you want to honor your word and help people. At this moment I thank God for my second life and the mission of having been president of Brazil for a term -lost at the polls to Lula da Silva-, but deep down I feel that this mission has not finished", he pointed out at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual forum of the North American political right in which the former president and candidate for re-election in the 2024 presidential elections President Donald Trump has promised to build another 300 kilometers of wall.
His speech, of about 24 minutes, was one of the most anticipated of this meeting that opened on Wednesday on the outskirts of Washington and closed today with a speech by former US Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021).
"In this land of freedom, progress and order, I feel like I am in Brazil. It is very comforting to be received like this anywhere in the world. I am the most beloved former president of Brazil," Bolsonaro stressed before a like-minded audience, who did not complete the capacity.
His presentation reviewed what he considered the achievements of his term: "Brazilians who had abandoned their flag began to love it. People began to understand more about politics, about the Brazilian Congress. The names of deputies and senators, and not only Those of the soccer players were part of everyday life in Brazil. I'm sure we planted many seeds."
His speech at the National Harbor made no allusions to what happened or to an eventual return to Brazil, but he did reiterate his unfounded suspicions about the last elections, which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won.
"I had much more support in 2022 than in 2018. I don't know why the numbers reflected the opposite," said the far-right, confessed admirer of the United States and close ally of Trump, with whom he said he had always maintained "an exceptional relationship."
The presentation came surrounded by the accusation launched against him by the newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo, according to which his government tried to illegally introduce jewels valued at 3.2 million dollars that Saudi Arabia would have given in October 2021 to the then first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro.
"I am being accused of a gift that I neither asked for nor received. There is no illegality on my part. No illegal practice," Bolsonaro said this Saturday on CNN Brazil, without mentioning the issue again before American conservatives.
At the end of his speech, the journalists also questioned him about the wave of left-wing governments in Latin America and he considered that "there is nothing good about it. Look at Venezuela, the richest country in the world in oil, sunk in poverty equivalent to that of Haiti".
