Eduardo praises relationship with the US when Brazil was dictatorship

The federal deputy (PL-SP) published on Sunday morning (10.ago.2025) in his X account a 1982 video that records a meeting between the then president of the United States, Ronald Reagan (Republican Party), and then-president of Brazil, João Figueiredo, last general who led the country in the military dictatorship (1964-1985).

In the images, Reagan speaks in the White House gardens in Washington, next to Figueiredo. Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) son 03 makes the following comment in the post: “Time when Brazil had a president and US-Brazil relations were taken seriously. These times will return”.

Eduardo has been in the US since February 2025, when he began working on the government of the government of current US President Donald Trump (Republican Party) against Brazilian authorities. The lobby for sanctions is also made by the grandson of João Figueiredo, businessman and journalist Paulo Figueiredo.

Here’s the post of Eduardo Bolsonaro:

🇧🇷🤝🇺🇸 1982, time when Brazil had a president and US-Brazil relations were taken seriously. These times will return.

– Eduardo Bolsonaro🇧🇷 (@bolsonarosp)

On July 9, Trump announced about Brazilian products. Justified the measure by saying that Brazil promotes a “Witch Hunt” against ally Jair Bolsonaro. The US President required the Supreme Court (STF) to interrupt “immediately” The process in which the former Brazilian president is accused of trying to give a coup after losing the elections to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) in 2022.

On July 30, the US government sanctioned STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes with A, used to punish foreigners who violate human rights. There are threats that sanctions will be extended to other Brazilian court ministers and Moraes supporters. On Saturday (9.ago), the deputy secretary of the US State Department, Christopher Landau, said the minister, rapporteur of inquiries against Bolsonarists, between USA and Brazil.