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The neo-fascist attempted coup against the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has been rejected by world leaders and peoples to this day.
While the president was at a congregation in Sao Paulo this Sunday, thousands of supporters of far-right ex-governor Jair Bolsonaro stormed the headquarters of the National Congress, the Supreme Court and the Planalto Palace in that state’s capital.
As soon as the news broke, the South American giant began receiving rejection messages from Latin American presidents and other continents.
The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, was among the first to condemn the coup actions and to express his support and solidarity for Lula da Silva and his government.
His Argentinian counterpart, Alberto Fernández, also expressed his opposition and called on countries in the region to defend the Labor Party leader.
While Chilean dignitary Gabriel Boric called the invasion of the headquarters of the three branches of the state of Brazil a cowardly and heinous attack on democracy, his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro dismissed the violence perpetrated by neo-fascist groups in the country.
A similar position was taken by their colleagues from Ecuador, Uruguay and Colombia, Guillermo Lasso, Luis Lacalle and Gustavo Petro respectively; Mexican dignitary Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Dominican counterpart Luis Abinader.
The governments of Costa Rica, Paraguay, Panama and Nicaragua also declared their rejection of the coup attempt.
Support for Lula da Silva also came from the United States and nations on other continents.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for respect for the will of the Brazilian people, while Angolan leader João Lourenço called these demonstrations regrettable.
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and UN-Brazil, among others, rejected the destabilizing actions of the right.