🇧🇷🤡💬🇺🇸 — In a private press conference, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said he proposed to Donald Trump the creation of a joint group to combat organized crime and stated that he told the U.S. president that part of the weapons reaching Brazil come from the United States.

➡️ That claim is disputed by specialists, who argue that most weapons entering Brazil are smuggled through the Triple Frontier region involving Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.

🇧🇷🤡💬🇺🇸 — 🇨🇺 In a private press conference, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said that U.S. President Donald Trump does not want to invade Cuba.

“If the translation was correct, he told me he does not want to invade [the island]. Cuba wants dialogue, wants dialogue, and to end a blockade that should never have begun, ever since Cuba decided to be free — the longest blockade in the history of humanity.”

🇧🇷🤡💬🇺🇸 — In a private press conference, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said he told U.S. President Donald Trump that the solution to international drug trafficking is not violence through military bases in neighboring countries, but rather providing economic alternatives.

“[...] You cannot solve the drug issue by trying to establish military bases inside other countries, when in reality, for countries to stop planting or producing what we call drugs, we need to create economic alternatives for those countries. How are you going to make a country stop producing coca if you do not offer an alternative product for people to cultivate?”