Members of the government () and allies celebrated the minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) imposed through . The removal of the magistrate’s name from the list of sanctioned people was announced this Friday (12).
The minister (Institutional Relations), responsible for the government’s political articulation, went online to comment on the fact and attributed the victory to the president.
“The removal of US sanctions against Minister Alexandre de Moraes is a great victory for Brazil and President Lula,” he wrote. “It was Lula who put this revocation on the table of , in a proud and sovereign dialogue. It is a great defeat for the family of , traitors who conspired against Brazil and against Justice.”
The tone was the same used by the PT leader in the Chamber, who congratulated Lula and Moraes.
“You managed to put Brazil back on the path of dialogue after all that sabotage carried out by Bolsonaro’s family, who acted like traitors to the country, imposing tariffs and sanctions on Supreme Court ministers,” he said in a video.
Moraes had been punished by the Donald Trump government on July 30. At the time, Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that there were “serious human rights abuses” by the STF minister.
The American government also removed Moraes’ wife, Viviane Barci, and the company, which belongs to the magistrate’s family, from the sanctioned list.
The Magnitsky Act addresses serious human rights violations, including dictators, and the decision to use it for a Brazilian authority was unprecedented. The US applied the same sanction to members of Venezuela’s highest courts.
The government leader in the Senate, Randolfe Rodrigues (PT-AP) used irony to comment on the case.
“All of this happened without having to say ‘I love you’ to Donald, Mickey and Goofy,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
