Brazil recalled its ambassador to Argentina on Sunday after Argentinian President Javier Milei insulted his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during a visit to the country.
"There is no precedent for a foreign president, on national territory, to hurl insults and offenses at the head of state, democratic institutions, including the judiciary, and the Brazilian people," Brazil's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Brazil has also summoned Argentina's ambassador to discuss those "insults," a Brazilian diplomatic source told the AFP news agency.What did Milei say?
Argentina's libertarian leader visited Sao Paulo on Saturday to attend a political event for Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of the former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who is set to run for president against Lula.
In a speech at the event, Milei called Brazil's leftist incumbent president a "convict," a "delinquent" and a "thief," without naming him explicitly.
