Last Thursday (11), shortly after the conviction of former President Jair Bolsonaro, Christopher Landau had stated that the relationship between Brazil and the US reached the ‘darker point in two centuries’
The Deputy Secretary of State, ambassador Christopher Landau, said on Wednesday (17) that the judicial process that found coup and that condemned the former president of the Republic may be a “political scam.” The American was commented on a report by Folha de S.Paulo that claims that ministers of the Supreme Court () said that the US President will take Bolsonaro to Papuda if he increases sanctions against the country.
“If this report is true, it only confirms that the whole ‘judicial’ process in progress is not a political scam,” Landau wrote, in a publication in X. “Those who claim to be following the rule of law cannot increase the punishment of a criminal defendant due to the response of a third party to his decision. As Trump and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio will be responded according to this political witch and will not be determined by Judicial threats, ”he concluded.
In the report, the vehicle states that Supreme Magistrates see unfeasibility of any distinctive treatment to Bolsonaro with a possible increase in sanctions to the country by the Trump government. No specific minister has been cited.
Last Thursday (11), shortly after the conviction of the former president, Landau had stated that the relationship between Brazil and the US reached the “darkest point in two centuries.” In his X profile, the deputy secretary said that “it hurts to see the minister destroying the rule of law.”
