Lula da Silva promises to recover trade with Argentina at 2010 levels

Then, the exchange between the two Latin American countries exceeded 37,000 million euros

MADRID, 24 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, affirmed this Monday his commitment that Brazil and Argentina return to having a commercial exchange similar to the one they had in 2010, when they exceeded 40,000 million US dollars (37,000 million euros).

"In 2003, Brazil-Argentina bilateral trade was barely 7,000 million dollars (6,400 million euros). In 2010 we reached 40,000 million dollars. Now, we have returned to half of that", highlighted the Brazilian president in a message on the social network Twitter.

"We will work to return to at least 40,000 million. That our relationship is not only commercial, that our differences remain only in football and that we build a strong commercial, political and social alliance," added Lula da Silva, who is in Buenos Aires. Aires, the city that hosts these days the summit of countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

In this sense, the Brazilian president has maintained that former president Jair Bolsonaro led the country to a setback that he would never have imagined over the course of four years.

Thus, he stressed that Bolsonaro "took the initiative to isolate himself from the world, in four years he did not receive anyone or visit anyone." Likewise, according to Lula da Silva, there would have been a kind of "blockade of humanity against Brazil", according to the Télam news agency.

For this reason, he has emphasized that his visit to Buenos Aires serves to tell the Argentine people that "Brazil is back", all this in the company of his Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernández.

"We are going together to strengthen and rebuild Mercosur, even with the participation of Bolivia," he exclaimed, while former Bolivian President Evo Morales was at his side.

The Brazilian president has also opted to recreate the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), emphasizing that the Latin American States alone are weak.