Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil’s Bolsonaro
Jasper Ward and Andrea Shalal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday, the United States, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’nun 2022 elections after the loss of a coup to remain in power, he said.
“The political persecution of Alexandre de Moraes, a sanctioned human rights abuse of Human Rights, is continuing,” Rubio X. “Him and Others in the Supreme Court of Brazil, who unjustly decided to imprison former President Jair Bolsonaro.”
“The United States will answer according to this witch hunt,” he said.
The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Rubio’s interpretation of Rubio as a threat that “attacking the Brazilian authority and ignoring the facts and compelling evidence in records”. The ministry said Brazilian democracy will not be scared by the US.
Bolsonaro, who had close ties with US President Donald Trump in the first period of the White House, became the first former president who was convicted of attacking democracy after voting to condemn him on Thursday. He was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison.
“I watched this hearing. I know him quite well-I think he was a good president of Brazil and they were very surprising as they tried to do with me, but they couldn’t escape, Tr Trump said if Bolsonaro was found guilty and means additional sanctions.
“But I can always say: I knew him as the president of Brazil. He was a good man and I don’t see it.”
At the same time, Trump, the first former US President of the United States, who faced various criminal charges and ultimately convicted for a crime last year, criticized the Brazilian judicial system and threatened tariffs for persecution of Bolsonaro in South American country.
In July, he applied 50% of Brazilian property to fight what he called “witch hunt” against Bolsonaro. Later, he exempt some Brazil exports, including a large number of parts and components used in passenger vehicles and civilian aircraft.
The same month approved the Brazilian Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Brazil Alexandre, who chaired Bolsonaro’s criminal case and accused him of the freedom of expression before the arbitrary trial.
(Reporting by Jasper Ward and Andrea Shalal in Washington; Organization by Bhargav Acharya and Lisa Shumakmer)
