President Donald Trump’s United States government will criticize the Brazilian government and Minister Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court (STF), in an annual report by the State Department on the situation of human rights and political freedoms in Brazil.
The information is from the American newspaper The Washington Post, that visualized excerpts from the report in advance. The text will be presented to the United States Congress on Tuesday, 12.
According to The Washington Postthe report will name Alexandre de Moraes nominally, accusing the magistrate of “disproportionately suppressing the discourse of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro” by determining “personally the suspension of more than 100 user profiles on the social media platform X (former Twitter),” according to the American newspaper.
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O Post He sought the US State Department, which refused to comment on the report. An employee said, on condition of anonymity, that “governments around the world continue to use censorship, arbitrary or illegal surveillance, and restrictive laws against disadvantaged voices, often for political and religious reasons.”
The US government, a rule that restricts the rights of serious human rights violators. Earlier, Trump management had suspended visas from eight of the eleven STF ministers, including Moraes.
Upon returning from a period of recess, on August 1, the Supreme Court dedicated part of the session to a displeasure to Alexandre de Moraes. The President of the Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, said that the Court will judge criminal actions on the attempted coup.
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The State Department usually discloses its analysis March or April of the year following the period studied. The reports relating to 2024, however, had the publication delayed by Trump management.
If the content of the Brazilian report in 2024 is confirmed, the Trump government will break with the traditional analysis of US diplomacy on the condition of human rights in Brazil.
The previous editions of the State Department report considered Brazil as an imperfect democracy. The entry about Brazil in 2023 records, for example, that the country has “effective judiciary, democratic and functional political system and guarantee of rights of expression, including members of the media”.
