The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, equivalent to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, said there should be ads of response from the country to the conviction of the former president ().
The statement was given by the head of American diplomacy in an interview with Fox News.
Rubio was questioned about the decision of the (Supreme Court), who sentenced Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for the accusation of having been a coup d’état and said he saw a deterioration of the rule of law in Brazil.
“The answer is that the rule of law is deteriorating. You have these activist judges, one in particular, who has not only pursued Bolsonaro, but also tried to impose extraterritorial claims to US citizens, or against someone posting online from within the United States, and threatened to go even further in this direction,” he said.
Although he did not mention his name, the secretary referred to the STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
“So there will be a US response to this, and we will have some ads next week or something about which additional measures we want to take. But this, the trial, is just another chapter of a growing judicial oppression campaign that tried to reach US companies and even people operating from the United States,” he said.
The Americans radar are a new wave of visa, the inclusion of Moraes’ wife, Viviane Barci, in the list of people who were financially sanctioned by the magnistky law, which punishes human rights violators.
The US still consider expanding tariffs applied to Brazilian products or reverses some of the approximately 700 exceptions to goods that were given in a 50%surcharge.
Following Rubio’s statement, White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared an opinion article from the Wall Street Journal, claiming that Bolsonaro was the victim of “Lawfare” in Brazil, a term used to refer to political persecution by the court.
The US Embassy in Brazil has also published messages on a decree signed by Trump this month that opens margin for countries to be considered sponsors of unfair arrests. The executive order refers to countries that have detained US citizens with what the US considers undue measures.
The decree opens a breach, however, to punish countries in which the US has a national interest in unfair arrests of local citizens. It is unclear if the United States will include Brazil in this decree, but if it happens, it would give a legal framework for more sanctions.
Last week, Rubio, what he called again “witch hunt” against Bolsonaro.
“Political persecution by the sanctioned human rights violator continues, while he and other members of the Supreme Court of Brazil have unjustly decided by the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro,” said US Secretary of State, equivalent to the Foreign Ministry at the X (former Twitter).
“The United States will respond properly to this witch hunt,” added Rubio.
US President Donald Trump also said on Thursday (11), the final day of the trial, with the conviction of Bolsonaro.
“I watched the trial. I know him well. As a foreign leader, I thought he was a good president. It’s very surprising that it happened. It’s very similar to what they tried to do with me, but they didn’t get it at all. But I can only say the following: I met him as president of Brazil. He was a good man, and I don’t see it happening.”
Trump also classified the trial as something “terrible” and “bad” to Brazil.
“I’m very unhappy with that. I know President Bolsonaro, not so well, but I know him as a country leader. And I always considered him very straightforward, very exceptional, in fact, as a man, a very exceptional man. I think it’s terrible. I think it’s very bad for Brazil,” he said. Trump.
