Supreme sovereignty

The marks of colonization remain alive in the ideology of Brazil's formation, a country whose sovereignty was built under surveillance. Agents of external interests have always been on standby, weaving the links of business, politics, and power throughout our history, without any commitment to building the republican, democratic, and civic nation that we so deeply dream of. We are witnessing Brazilians plotting with the United States government to impose sanctions against Brazil and its legally constituted authorities. For them, sovereignty would be our greatest tropical sin.

As the civic celebrations of September 7th approach and we witness the trial of false patriots who recently attempted a coup d'état in Brazil, our reflections must go beyond military and school parades. After all, our sovereignty is under attack from the United States government. We must defend it, protect our territorial domain, our autonomy, the supreme power of our republican institutions, and the democratic rule of law.

The reactions that motivated the attack on Brazil presented themselves as being caused by the institutional affirmation of our sovereignty, by our defense of the democratic rule of law, and by the fact that the national project of sustainable development with social, environmental, and tax justice, led by President Lula, was chosen by the people at the polls. A project that consolidates democracy, national sovereignty, and Brazil's position among the top 10 economic powers in the world outside the UN Hunger Map. 

A sovereign project that confronts the rentiers of the financialization of the economy by positioning the State as the driver of development with record investments in production, infrastructure in partnership with the private sector, including the poor in the budget, as President Lula says, reducing inequality and extreme poverty, and protecting the environment. In other words, a project for achieving full sovereignty. 

The discomfort felt by the United States government, reflected in sanctions, stems from Brazil's prominence on the international stage. President Lula repositioned Brazil in global geopolitics with his active and assertive foreign policy. He chairs BRICS, Mercosur – is negotiating the Mercosur/European Union agreement – ​​and recently chaired the G20. 

In international forums, President Lula leads the debate on multilateralism, the reform of global governance, the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, peace among nations, and sustainable development with energy transition, social, tax, and environmental justice. He proposed the establishment of the Global Compact Against Hunger, which already has the individual participation of 82 countries. 

Unlike the United States, which is experiencing a dramatic moment in the face of China, its stratospheric public debt of over 120% of GDP, the inertial devaluation of the dollar worldwide, and the prospect of the use of digital payment methods outside the domain of the US currency.

The results of the sovereign government project, led by President Lula and his executive team, with the contribution of the National Congress, are solid and undeniable. The government has resonated with the population, and this positive perception has been captured by recent polls. 

The ominous slogans of rentiers, such as "the government is spending too much," "the government isn't doing its homework," "the numbers don't add up," and others, repeated ad nauseam in the news, are being superseded by positive economic indicators. The Lula government's choice is not to cut spending to favor rentiers, but to invest in production, in favor of economic growth, job creation, and increased income. 

In the economic growth ranking (3,4% in 2024), Brazil occupies the 7th position among 40 countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with the lowest unemployment rate in the historical series (5,8% in the second quarter of 2025), a record increase in income, which reached R$ 3.477,00 per month with controlled and falling inflation. Among the G20 countries – the world's largest economies – Brazil had the 4th highest growth in the accumulated total for 2024. In the first quarter of 2025, it was the country that grew the most, with an advance of 1,4% in its GDP.

The strategic and sovereign choice to invest in sectors such as agriculture, industry, energy transition, infrastructure, and defense, along with structural public policies (education, research, health, housing, among others), plus social programs, constitute the central axis of the national development project. 

These are substantial investments. The New Industry Program, for example, is investing R$ 506,7 billion; the Harvest Plan R$ 516,2 billion; Family Farming R$ 89 billion; civil construction and other infrastructure sectors/PAC R$ 1,7 trillion. In 2024, investments in the energy transition totaled US$ 37 billion and R$ 112,9 billion in the defense industry. 

The foundations for Brazil's economic development have been competently laid and planned, are quite solid, and have had the support of the productive sector, providing economic stability and prospects for growth.

Unlike the right wing, which will go to the polls in 2026 fragmented, without a plan, and with the worn-out discourse defending the agenda of rentiers and "cutting spending," President Lula will go to the polls to defend the continuity of the successful national development project, with an organic candidacy committed to democracy, in tune with workers and productive sectors that want to move forward with stability. 

The debate indicates that there will no longer be room in Brazil for coups d'état, renunciation of our sovereignty, or the dismantling of the democratic development project that has become a global benchmark in affirming democracy and defending the democratic rule of law.

The strength of our institutions was recognized by The Economist magazine in a recent cover story, in which it states that Brazil "sets an example of democratic maturity for the United States," referring to the investigations, arrests, and trial by the Brazilian Supreme Court of a former president and those involved in the coup plot of January 8th.

The United States, once a benchmark of liberal democracy, is experiencing the end of two myths that founded the American nation: Manifest Destiny – "The United States as a supremacist world power" – and the myth of the American Dream – "through work I will become rich." 

Brazil is experiencing the recovery of our sovereignty and the consolidation of democracy under the leadership of President Lula. All polls confirm this: President Lula is unbeatable in all scenarios. The government is reaching the base of the pyramid. It is focused on production, economic growth, employment, and income. This is the sentiment we hope to see translated into the re-election of President Lula, ensuring the continuity of the project that is transforming Brazil into a fairer, less unequal, hunger-free, and fully sovereign country.