The vice president, , declared on Thursday (28) that the United States is about a Bolsonaro family factoid to divert attention from the Banco Master corruption and evasion case.
“Unfortunately, members of the Bolsonaro clan think more about themselves than about the country. To get out of this issue of Banco Master, the biggest case of corruption and tax evasion, they are generating factoids”, he told the press during an agenda in Caraguatatuba, on the coast of São Paulo.
The vice president mentioned that the measure “will not solve anything in terms of fighting crime and could harm the economy”.
On Thursday night (28), the United States announced that it began designating the Brazilian factions Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) as terrorist organizations.
The announcement coincided with a meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, took place on Wednesday (27), in Washington. at the White House, in the company of his brother, the self-exiled former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, both sons of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Reports from the portal The Intercept Brasil, owner of Banco Master, asking him for money to pay part of the production costs of his father’s biopic. According to the portal, the banker agreed to allocate R$134 million to productionof which at least R$61 million were effectively released.
Trump’s foreign policy
In this new term, Donald Trump’s government comes reorienting Washington’s foreign policy toward Latin Americadirecting its war machine towards the region under the justification of combating what it calls “narco-terrorism”.
Over the past few months, US military forces US directly bombed several vessels in the Caribbeanoutside North American jurisdiction, under allegations of combating terrorism.
Her own invasion of Venezuelan territoryat the beginning of the year, which resulted in the deposition of his wife, Cilia Flores, who was also justified based on the fight against narco-terrorism.
The range of similar actions in Brazilian territorybased on this new designation, although uncertain, it becomes a real risk.