President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva classified this Saturday (19) by “another arbitrary and completely unfounded measure”.
In an official note issued by the Planalto Palace, Lula expressed solidarity with the ministers affected by the revocation of visas, announced on Friday (18) by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“The interference of one country in the justice system of another is unacceptable and hurts the basic principles of respect and sovereignty among nations,” he wrote.
“I am sure that no kind of intimidation or threat, of anyone, will compromise the most important mission of national powers and institutions, which is to act permanently in the defense and preservation of the Democratic Rule of Law,” he added.
On Friday night, Rubio announced that Washington was restricting visas to the Brazilian judiciary and his immediate family members, citing objections to legal proceedings against former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Rubio ordered the revocation of visas to Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court, and for those who called his allies in court, as well as his immediate family members, without specifying too much names.
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In a publication in the X, also on Friday, the Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, said that the other ministers affected were Luís Roberto Barroso, current president of the Court; Dias Toffoli, Cristiano Zanin, Flavio Dino, Carmen Lúcia, Edson Fachin and Gilmar Mendes.
A and said it was an “aggressive and petty retaliation” on the STF’s decision to impose precautionary measures on Bolsonaro for his performance, along with federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), his son, along with US officials to impose sanctions on Brazil.
Also in a message on the network, Union Attorney General Jorge Messias said that the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, was also the target of the US visa restriction and said that the Brazilian judiciary will not be intimidated by the measure.
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“I assure that no unhealthy conspiracy act or sordid conspiracy act will be intimidated the judiciary of our country in its independent and decent act,” Messiah wrote.
The Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Supreme Court did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
US President Donald Trump, a term he used to describe the processes he himself responded, and asked the accusations to be withdrawn.
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In a letter last week, opening the message with criticism of the trial.
Bolsonaro is being tried by the first class of the Supreme Court under a.
O, but acknowledged having attended meetings to reverse the outcome of the election.
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Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has licensed his parliamentary mandate and moved to the United States where he has been campaigning in recent months for the application of US sanctions to Brazilian authorities, said in a publication on the X at dawn on Saturday that “much to come” after the restriction of views of STF ministers.
