Havana, Aug 21 (Prensa Latina) Lies and scapegoats are the fundamental leverage of Donald Trump''s administration, Brazilian political scientist, Emir Sader, noted in an article published in Havana.

Sader claims that the U.S. president emits an average of 20 lies a day and adds, in a text published on the Cubadebate website, that the biggest scapegoat for Trump are Mexicans, whom he considers 'responsible for all U.S. woes.'

He adds that Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonario, and Argentine President, Mauricio Macri, are Trump's followers and also resort to lies.

'Bolsonaro and his puppets lie all the time and seek to attribute to the Workers' Party the current problems of the country, as if they did not inherit three years of disastrous government' from Michel Temer and the reestablishment of neoliberalism, the sociologist added, noting, 'the defeat of his friend Macri has left them baffled.'

In his article, Sader criticizes Bolsonaro's Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, whom he describes as a pinochetist (in reference to the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet) and criticizes for his 'lies at all costs, the most scandalous' being those that have to do with the imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

'A government that has 14 million unemployed, which does not worry it at all, accuses Lula of not having created jobs for Brazilians. Lula, whose government created 22 million formal jobs for Brazilians,' he ironically notes.

That's how Trump's puppets and the International Monetary Fund behave, concludes Sader.