The president’s statements arose during a One -hour interview with an international news agencythen reproduced by the main Brazilian media. There, Lula hardly questioned Bolsonaro’s role and pointed it out as responsible for a economic damage deliberate towards the country.
“I think it should be judged for other reasons, Because what is doing now is putting the United States against Brazil, damaging the Brazilian economy and Brazilian workers ”.
“And his son (the deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, since March refugee in the United States) should face a new process and be convicted as a traitor to the homeland. Traitor of the Homeland: that is what it is”the president said in a passage loaded with political tension.
According to Lula, the Donald Trump tariffs Not only did they negatively impacted the country’s economy, but they are partly explained by the political actions of the former Brazilian president and his environmentwhat in his opinion constitutes a maneuver without a history in diplomatic history.
“There are no precedents in the story that a president and his son – a congressman – puts the president of the United States against Brazil. This never happened in the history of any other country in the world”Lula stressed, closing an intervention that even more scale the confrontation with Bolsonarism.
The US considered that house prison to Jair Bolsonaro “threatens democracy”
He US State Department criticized the judge’s decision Alexandre de Moraesmember of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazilto impose HOME PRINTING TO EXPRESIDER Jair Bolsonaro. According to an official statement, the measure “threatens democracy” and restricts the right of the ex -president to express itself publicly.
Through your Western Hemisphere’s Affairs Officethe American entity said: “Minister Alexandre de Moraes, already sanctioned by the US for human rights violations, continues to use Brazilian institutions to silence the opposition and threaten democracy “.
In that line, he completed that “imposing even more restrictions on Jair Bolsonaro’s ability to defend herself publicly is not a public service. Let Bolsonaro speak!”
The office is in charge of coordinate American foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, through functions such as diplomatic relations management, Promotion of democracy and human rightsregional security cooperation and the application of corruption sanctions or threats to the democratic order.
The words of the office are part of the Magnitsky Law, which allows the US to sanction foreign officials involved in serious human rights violations.
Source: Ambito
