00:00After a Brazilian newspaper published a list of demands from the Trump administration,
00:05President Lula explained to the UN why he's ignoring them.
00:08Our Congressman Brian Meir has more.
00:12Estado do Sao Paulo newspaper has released a list of demands the Trump administration made to Brazil in 2025
00:19during negotiations over the U.S. import tariffs.
00:23The list reveals that over the past year, the Brazilian government hasn't given in to a single demand.
00:28At the UN General Assembly this week, President Lula explains why.
00:34In Latin America and the Caribbean, the geographical proximity to the world's largest military power is inescapable,
00:42especially in the context of the worsening of hegemonic temptations.
00:46Brazil does not fit into anyone's backyard.
00:49The Trump demands ignored by Lula include unrestricted U.S. corporation access to Brazil's rare-earth minerals,
00:56an end to the Brazilian government's PIX electronic currency transaction system,
01:02which to the U.S. credit card companies dismay does not impose service charges,
01:06and a commitment for Brazilian private airline companies to only purchase planes from Boeing.
01:12I believe that Lula is correct in refusing to give in to Donald Trump's demands.
01:20Because accepting them would mean subordinating Brazil to a foreign power.
01:27It would violate the principle of sovereignty.
01:29On the one hand, Brazil has a president running for re-election who hasn't given in to U.S. demands.
01:35On the other, candidate Flavio Bolsonaro has spent the year promising to give in to almost all of them.
01:40This explains why U.S. politicians and conservative groups are supporting the Bolsonaro candidacy.
01:46But as sociologist Marcelo Zero writes, Brazil's geopolitical submission is also vital for the United States to impose the so
01:54-called Don Roe doctrine across the entire continent.
01:57There's an imperialist offensive underway in which Donald Trump and the big tech companies are attempting to insert themselves into
02:06political processes around the entire world.
02:08They say this openly, and in Latin America, advanced democracies are falling like houses of cards.
02:15Brazil's presidential elections will take place on October 4th.
02:18Brian Mir, tell us tomorrow.
