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The US froze Judge de Moraes’s assets, citing his role in arbitrary detentions, censorship, and cases against Bolsonaro. Brazil has criticised the United States Department of the Treasury’s decision to impose sanctions on Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over alleged suppression of freedom of expression and the ongoing trial…

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has been a target of criticism by President Donald Trump for his handling of legal cases involving former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The sanctions come five months after Trump’s social media company,…

A few weeks ago, inside the marbled corridor of Brazil’s Foreign Ministry, the country’s leftist President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, received a question from a journalist: “Trump said he would announce a tariff against Brazil,” she began. But, before the journalist could finish her question, she was interrupted by…

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that former President Jair Bolsonaro must “pay for the shit he did,” referring to the ongoing “coup” trial against Bolsonaro. Lula also criticized Donald Trump for supporting Bolsonaro against what the American president called a “witch hunt”…

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Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, accuses Supreme Court justice of behaving ‘like every dictator’, after assets and accounts frozen. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the freezing of the accounts and assets of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s third son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, while the…

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has reportedly stripped eight of Brazil’s 11 supreme court judges of their US visas as the White House escalates its campaign to help the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro avoid justice over his alleged attempt to seize power with a military coup. Bolsonaro,…

About five decades ago, a U.S. president provoked a shift in his country’s relationship with Brazil. President Jimmy Carter decided to end what had amounted to unconditional American support for a string of anti-leftist Latin American dictatorships, including the military-backed regime entrenched in Brasília. Carter’s emphasis on human rights is…

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged President Trump to negotiate a trade agreement this week as the U.S. has pursued increasingly aggressive action over the criminal prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president. “What we cannot have is President Trump forgetting that he was elected to govern the…