Overview
- Brazil’s foreign ministry summoned Argentina’s ambassador Julio Bitelli to Brasília on Sunday to register a formal protest after Argentine president Javier Milei’s speech in São Paulo.
- Milei used the PL convention to praise candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and to openly denounce President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes.
- The Argentine president repeated an unproven claim that Brazil, Mexico and U.S. Democrats funded an 'anti-Argentina' World Cup campaign and said he was barred from visiting jailed ex‑president Jair Bolsonaro.
- Brazilian officials described the comments as a 'direct affront' and senior judicial and political figures publicly pushed back, signaling an unusual public rupture between two top trading partners.
- The episode feeds into a pattern of nascent right‑wing regional coordination as Milei continues a tour to inaugurations in Peru and Colombia and could influence political dynamics ahead of Brazil’s October election.