Lula attacks Obama’s LatAm view

Brazil: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lamented on Monday that US President Barack Obama maintains the same view of his predecessors towards Latin America and criticized the US stand regarding the Middle East.

“I think that the United States fails to have a more optimistic view towards Latin America and South America because they have always had a relation of Empire with poor countries,” Lula told journalists accredited to Planalto Palace.

He said that this view has to change and recalled that when the Summit of the Americas was held in Trinidad and Tobago last year, the leaders of the Union of South American Nations met with Obama. He said that one of the things he told the US president then was that “you need to change the way you look at Latin America.

We are currently consolidating the largest process of democracy existing in the planet.” However, “the truth is that nothing has changed. I see this with sadness because the process of promotion of democracy in Latin America is the strongest in the world”, said Lula.

Lula’s said: “The problem with the United States is that, as it is a very large country, they use to play down foreign policy and they appoint a deputy secretary for this and an assistant secretary for that”.

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