The American State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the US would respond after the former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of deporting a coup to stay in power after his loss in the 2022 elections, although the secretary did not go into detail about what an American reaction would look like.
“The political persecutions due to sanctioned human rights ring separation Alexandre de Moraes continue because he and others have wrongly ruled at the Brazil Supreme Court to lock up former President Jair Bolsonaro,” Rubio wrote on X.
“The United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt,” he continued.
The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that Rubio’s remark was a threat that attacks “the Brazilian authority and ignores the facts and compelling evidence in the archives.”
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The American State Secretary Marco Rubio said that the US would respond after the former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of deporting a coup to stay in power after his loss in the 2022 elections. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty images)
The ministry said that Brazilian democracy would not be intimidated by the US government.
Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison when he was convicted on Thursday by the Supreme Court of the country on accusing the deprivation of a coup to prevent President Luiz inácio Lula da Silva from having to take on in January 2023.
The former Brazilian leader was a narrow ally of US President Donald Trump during the first Trump government.
“Well, I looked at that process. I know him reasonably well. I thought he was a good president of Brazil, and it is very surprising that they could happen to me, but they did not get away with it at all,” Trump told reporters, and noted the legal affairs against the American president in the past years, what his federal level, what his his federal level, what his his federal.
“But I can always say this: I knew him as president of Brazil. He was a good man,” he added.
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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison. (Reuters)
Trump has criticized the Brazilian judicial system and threatened the rates in the country for his case against Bolsonaro.
In July the US President installed 50% rates for most Brazilian goods in response to a “witch hunt” against Bolsonaro. Later he exempted some Brazilian exports, including passenger vehicles and countless parts and components used in civil aircraft.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, are non -specific allies on the field and his direct family members will be revoked, according to Rubio, who criticized what he called a “political witch hunt” against the former president.
That same month, Rubio Visa recalls announced about the Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who foreseen the criminal case of Bolsonaro, and his non -specified allies in the court after the court had issued searches and ordered against Bolsonaro.
The US Department of Finance had also punished the court for accusations of authorizing random pre-trial detention and suppressing freedom of expression.
The former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil was a close ally of US President Donald Trump during the first Trump government. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)
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The son of Bolsonaro, Brazilian congress member Eduardo Bolsonaro, said that he anticipates extra American sanctions against Brazilian judges after the conviction of his father.
“We are going to have a fixed reaction with actions from the US government to this dictatorship installed in Brazil,” he told Reuters on Thursday.
He warned that Justices who voted to convict the former president could experience sanctions under the Magnitsky Act, which was previously used by the Trump government against the Moraes.
“If these Supreme Court judges continue to follow Moraes, they also run the risk of undergoing the same sanction,” he said.
Reuters has contributed to this report.
