The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will travel to Cuba in September before heading to New York, where he will participate in the UN General Assembly.
According to the press agency The globe, the trip will take place between September 15 and 16 to attend the Summit of the Group of 77 (G77) in Havana.
Lula da Silva, an ally of the regime, will fulfill his agenda in the country before traveling to the United States.
This will be the second bilateral meeting between Lula and the Cuban ruler, Miguel Díaz-Canel. In June, the two met in Paris, France, which was celebrated by the PT government as a "resumption of dialogue with Cuba, abandoned in recent years by the previous government."
About 20 days ago, the international affairs advisor of the Planalto Palace, Celso Amorim, traveled to Havana and promised reestablish commercial and political ties with Cuba.
Amorim also expressed that groups of health experts and representatives of the Brazilian agricultural sector will soon travel to Cuba.
Relations between Brazil and Cuba, once strong during Lula's Workers' Party government between 2003 and 2016, deteriorated under former President Jair Bolsonaro.
In 2008, Amorim had expressed that his country wanted to be Cuba's number one partner in the "new moment" that the island was experiencing and said then both nations would close new loans for the financing of infrastructure businesses.
In 2022, bilateral trade between Brazil and Cuba reached $292.6 million, an increase of 60.3% compared to 2021.
Only between January and May 2023, exports, imports and the trade balance recorded a surplus for Brazil of US$67.7 million.
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