Milei Proposes Encounter With Lula After Mutual Insults

  • Mondino delivered invitation during a trip to Brazil this week
  • Invitation doesn’t specify date, meeting to happen naturally
Javier MileiPhotographer: Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images
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Argentina’s President Javier Milei has extended an olive branch to Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whom he has repeatedly called a “communist,” by proposing an encounter to thaw high-level relations between the neighboring countries.

On a trip to Brasilia and Sao Paulo this week, Foreign Minister Diana Mondino hand-delivered a letter to Lula’s team with the invitation, which does not set a date or place for the informal meeting, according to officials from both governments familiar with the text. Lula intends to wait until a meeting happens naturally, the Brazilian official added. Both requested anonymity to disclose the letter’s content.