Trump defends Bolsonaro, accused of an attempt, and attacks against the policies of his successor, the leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who responded by saying that he will defend the “sovereignty of the Brazilian people.”
Trump’s tariff punishment has important exceptions to the largest economy in Latin America.
Trump saves essential products in Brazilian exports such as orange juice, energy, civil aircraft and their components, fertilizers, precious metals, cellulose paste or arrabio, among others.
But coffee is included among the products that will be subjected to 50% of supplementary customs rates, applicable seven days after the issuance of the decree, reads in the text. That is, August 6.
In Trump decree, the threat of tariffs announced in early July in a letter addressed to Lula, followed after another for Bolsonaro in which he covers the former ultra -rightist leader.
“Persecution” against Bolsonaro
For Trump, the actions of the Lula Government “constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to national security, foreign policy and the United States economy,” reports the White House in a statement.
“The persecution, intimidation, harassment, censorship and politically motivated prosecution of the Brazilian government” against “Bolsonaro and thousands of its followers are serious violations of human rights that have undermined the rule of law in Brazil,” says Washington.
The Republican President says that members of the Brazilian government “have taken unprecedented measures to coercion tyrannially and arbitrarily to US companies to censor political discourse, expel users from their platforms, deliver confidential data from US users or modify their content moderation policies.”
More sanctions to Judge Moraes
The White House also lashed out against the judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil Alexandre de Moraes, turned into Trump’s black beast.
Moraes “has abused his judicial authority to threaten, point out and intimidate thousands of his political opponents, protect corrupt allies and suppress dissent, often in coordination with other Brazilian officials, including other judges of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil,” reads the statement.
Hours before the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of Treasury imposed economic sanctions on this magistrate, whom Washington had already revoked the visa.
The sanctions are imposed under an American law known as Global Magnitsky, which punishes those who have committed or are linked to human rights violations or corruption in the world.
“The freedom to be a judge and jury has been taken in an illegal witch hunt against US and Brazilian citizens and companies,” says Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, cited in a statement.
As a result of the sanctions, all the goods and participations of default that are in the United States or that are held or under the control of Americans are blocked.
In 2024 Moraes temporarily blocked X in Brazil until the social network fulfilled its order to eliminate accounts accused of spreading misinformation.
Subsequently, he ordered to suspend rumble because this platform to share videos, popular between conservatives and the extreme right, refused to block a user resident in the United States who was sought for spreading misinformation.
