The deputy (-SP) said that the decision of revoking is a “message” that neither bureaucrats nor ministers will be immune to eventual punishments of the president ,.
“The measure is also an unmistakable message: neither ministers, nor bureaucrats of the lower levels, nor their families are immune. Sooner or later, all who contribute to support these regimes will answer for what they did-and there will be no place to hide. We will continue with our Washington DC schedules throughout Thursday,” he said in a statement.
The State Department announced on Wednesday (13) the revocation of visas of “several employees of the Brazilian government and former employees of PAHO [Organização Pan-Americana de ] accomplices in the forced labor export scheme of the Cuban regime “.
Mais Médicos was created in 2013, in Dilma Rousseff (PT) management, and hired Cuban doctors to work in remote regions by 2018.
Trump management said it revoked the visas of Mozart Júlio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman. The State Department justified the measure because both “worked at the Brazilian Ministry of Health during the Mais Médicos program and played a role in planning and implementing the program.”
Mozart is currently secretary of specialized health care and very close to Minister Alexandre Padilha (Health). Already Kleiman is general coordinator for COP30 of the organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (OTCA), an intergovernmental organization of which the governments of countries that have Amazon rainforest in their territories include.
Mozart, at the time of implementation of the program, was secretary at the Ministry of Health. Already Kleiman, director.
to talk to US authorities about the extent of sanctions to Brazil for what they see as censorship and persecution of supporters of (PL). The businessman Paulo Figueiredo is in the American capital as well.
Both have been working since January to get punishments for the Minister, (Supreme Federal Court), in retaliation for their decisions.
“The announcement made today by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, of Cuban origin, of sanctions against financiers of the Communist Dictatorship Cuban traveled of government programs reinforces the commitment of the Trump administration to contain and punish authoritarian regimes, such as those of Cuba and those who Moraes and Lula try to transform Brazil, so that they do not spread their reach through the continent impunity,” said Eduardo and Figueiredo.
The State Department also announced the restriction of visas to authorities of the governments of Cuba, from African countries and grenade “their complicity in the scheme” of the Cuban medical missions, the State Department said on Wednesday (13).
Despite not involving former President Jair Bolsonaro, the fact that the US has aimed Brazil for the practice of hiring Cuba doctors is a sign that the US government may also be willing to punish members of the federal government.
Since July, when US President Donald Trump began to apply sanctions to Brazil and Minister Alexandre de Moraes, this is the first time an executive authority has been reached.
So far, the US have revoked visas from Supreme Court (Supreme Court) ministers to enter the country, have applied a financial sanction based on Magnitsky Law to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, and applied 50% rates on Brazilian imported products.
These measures were taken under the justification that Moraes has censored companies and citizens resident and with American citizenship and promoted a “witch hunt” to former President Jair Bolsonaro.
