Only chaos wrought by the Hate Cabinet in some corner of the Planalto can explain the flaws in Lula’s yearend plan. The president had prepared to celebrate Christmas with an international triumph. The plans included an apotheotic passage through COP28, a redemptive conclusion to the deal between Mercosur and the European Union and the promise that the G20 would have a glorious 2024 under the presidency of Brazil. Went wrong.
Because Lula had indicators to serve as a model for COP28 to reduce deforestation in the Amazon, he experienced oil relapses. Because he was able to focus on the HaddadMarina duo’s ecological transformation plan and the Brazilian proposal to create a fund to finance existing tropical forests, Lula polluted the environment with the MercosurEuropean Union agreement. He received an elbow from his French friend Emmanuel “totally against” Macron.
On the way to a meeting whose theme is decarbonization, Lula stopped in Saudi Arabia, the world champion in oil production. Immediately after arriving at the climate summit, his Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, announced Brazil’s entry into OPEC+, following the lead of the oil cartel. “I will go there, listen and talk. We won’t whistle anything,” Lula said as he confirmed the news. Comrade Jean Paul Prates accused the fan of the plan to open a Petrobras Arabia. “His mind is very fertile,” Lula explained as he rejected the idea of the Arabian Nights.