Brazil's Bolsonaro takes aim at communist Cuba

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American Thinker
Monica Showalter
Nov. 4, 2018

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, the conservative former military man painted by the press as a madman, "Tropical Trump," and all that, is showing signs of a strategic mindset.

In his first noticible foreign policy move, he's threatened to just shut down ties with Cuba. According to Reuters:

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said there was no point maintaining diplomatic relations with Cuba because it trampled on human rights and there was no business to be done with the communist-run island.

In an interview published on Friday by Correio Braziliense newspaper, Bolsonaro criticized the Mais Medicos (More Doctors) program under which 11,420 Cuban doctors work in poor or remote parts of Brazil.

He said that 75 percent of the doctors’ salaries was paid to Cuba’s government and their children were not allowed to join them in Brazil, citing the case of a doctor whose three young children had to stay in Cuba.

“That is just torture for a mother,” Bolsonaro said. “Can we maintain diplomatic relations with a country that treats its people that way?”

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Should be interesting to watch China scrambling to meet its soybean needs under Bolsonaro.

They shot off to Brazil to get around Trump's tariffs, so Now what?

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Should be interesting to watch China scrambling to meet its soybean needs under Bolsonaro.

They shot off to Brazil to get around Trump's tariffs, so Now what?

I don't think any country will decline to sell to China. Not agricultural products.