BARCELONA, Spain.- This Friday, the head of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezand the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvathey stated in Barcelona its full harmony with the current geopolitical moment, supporting the message of the “no to war” and calling on progressives around the world to stand up to the “reactionary wave.”
Sánchez and Lula led the first bilateral summit between their respective countries, in which eight Spanish ministers and their corresponding Brazilian counterparts participated and a series of agreements were signed that reinforce collaboration in various areas.
The summit is one of the three international events that are held in two days in Barcelona and at the origin of which are both leaders, since in addition to this bilateral summit, there will also be another one of an institutional nature called ‘In defense of democracy‘, and a progressive forum with more than a hundred matches from all over the world and about 3,000 participants.
The three quotes were present at the press conference that Sánchez and Lula offered at the end of the meeting between their two countries.
Thus, Pedro Sánchez affirmed that the relationship between Spain and Brazil goes far beyond the bilateral, since they are called to be engines that bring the European Union already Latin America y the Caribbean.
close wounds
But he also stressed that Spain and Brazil share the same vision of the world in defense of democracy, cooperation, respect for international law, human rights and peace, and that is why they want to redouble their efforts to work for all of this.
“While others open wounds, what we want is to close and heal them and dedicate ourselves to what is important, to curb inequality in our societies and between nations and to respond to great challenges such as the climate emergency,” he added without explicitly referring at any time to the American president, Donald Trump.
Sánchez has added that peace is not only the absence of warbut the condition that makes everything else possible, prosperity, social justice, freedom, the defense of democracy and its consolidation, values that have regretted that they are being attacked by a “reactionary wave”authoritarianism or misinformation that threaten democratic institutions.
Raising your voice against an illegal war is not always comfortable, but it is certainly the right thing to do.
Neutrality in the face of injustice is not prudence: it is renunciation. And we will not give up who we are. pic.twitter.com/rboPt1IJAn
— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) April 17, 2026
In line with those words, Lula has supported positions that Sánchez is defending on issues such as war in iran: “I understand perfectly,” he stressed, “when you say ‘no to war’.”
Furthermore, he has considered that both are “in the same trench” and they are the example that it is possible to build solutions to problems “without giving in to the empty promises of extremism“.
Hitler’s shadow
Lula added that both share the idea that “democracy has to go beyond voting and provide concrete benefits to people’s lives.”
The Brazilian president wondered how it was possible that “the imbecility of a discourse that has neither beginning, middle nor end” and that devalues democracy, the defense of women or racism has been gaining followers.
Faced with this, he urged progressives to find a solution to strengthen the democratic process and not allow what happened in the past with Hitler and come back Nazism or racism.
Both Sánchez and Lula highlighted the importance of deal with everything harmful about social networksa matter in which the President of the Government has recalled all the measures he has promoted to confront the “failed State” that these networks represent.
I thank Spain for its support in approving the Mercosur–European Union agreement, which comes into force on May 1st.
Now, let’s work together to expand trade and investment flows between the blocks. I am sure that this agreement will create opportunities for… pic.twitter.com/AjrgkDRbIl
— Lula (@LulaOficial) April 17, 2026
Along these lines, Lula has guaranteed that he will work hard to regulate all platformsso that they do not cause damage to democracy, sovereignty and people’s happiness.
Before the press conference, the two leaders presided over the signing of agreements between their countries on the occasion of this summit, which dealt with critical minerals, information technologies, the fight against gender violence, the promotion of racial equality, culture, science and digital transformation.
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