The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, on Friday 12 sent a letter to President Jair Bolsonaro asking that the President and Chancellor Ernesto Araújo “condemn” and “categorically reject” the attacks. of ex-President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, declaring that if not, there will be “damage to the bilateral relationship.”
The letter was sent the day after Ernesto and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made their first telephone conversation since President Joe Biden took office. The conversation had a calming tone, and Blinken invited President Bolsonaro to attend the climate change summit Biden is expected to host on April 22.
Menendez’s letter, however, once again raises the temperature between the two governments. The senator is a highly respected moderate in Washington and, as the head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, has a major influence on American foreign policy. He specifically criticizes Ernesto Araújo.
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