Brazil’s Economic Sovereignty Under Fire: 7 Strategic Response Options to Trump’s Punitive 50% Tariff War – From Diplomatic Defiance to BRICS Realignment
“Eu não vou me humilhar,” declared President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the fire of a man who has seen his nation bow to foreign pressure before—and refuses to let it happen again. As Trump’s punitive 50% tariffs crashed into Brazil’s export economy like a tsunami hitting the beaches of Copacabana, Lula’s defiant words echoed across a nation that has always prided itself on jeitinho brasileiro the Brazilian way of finding creative solutions to impossible problems.