Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro plants French Foreign Minister to go get a haircut

Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, does not go to an appointment with the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, because he had an appointment at the hairdresser, although the president of Latin America would have said he had scheduling problems. Bolsonaro, however, gave himself away when he put on his social media profile that he was going to cut his hair. The Frenchman from Emmanuelle Macron's government made a stopover in Brazil as part of a tour of several countries in the region. Among the issues on the table was an express request to the Bolsonaro Executive not to dissociate himself from the commitments signed in the fight against climate change. “Today I am going to meet with the French minister and, if I am not mistaken "We will talk about the environment," said Bolsonaro on the same Monday, the day of the meeting, during a statement in which he defended the legitimacy of his government to change its position. However, just an hour before the meeting with Le Drian, the meeting was canceled. The Brazilian Presidency has alluded to scheduling problems, but at the same time that he should have met with the head of French diplomacy, Bolsonaro shared in his Facebook profile a video in a hairdresser. The Presidency has avoided clarifying this controversy, on which the French Executive has also been cautious. Questioned on this issue, the French Foreign Ministry has avoided commenting on Wednesday. "We have no comment," said a spokesman, who has limited himself to repeating the proposals made by Le Drian during his meeting with his Brazilian counterpart, Ernesto Araujo, with whom he was able to meet.