Despite this, they say members of the US government have mentioned the proposal as a point of US interest.
BRASÍLIA – Members of the Brazilian government celebrated the decision of the United States to withdraw the sanction against Minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the Federal Supreme Court, and the fact that there was no quid pro quo from the Brazilian government for this to happen.
Although members of the North American government are using the bill to reduce sentences for those involved in coups, members of the Brazilian government interviewed by the report insist there is no connection between the two issues.
Lula and US President Donald Trump spoke on Tuesday 2. The PT member asked Trump to withdraw sanctions against Moraes and other authorities. Brazilian government sources say that, based on the tone of the phone call, the US president demonstrated that he understood that this issue was important to Brazil. So they credit the phone call between the two with getting the sanction removed.
The United States government announced this Friday the 12th the withdrawal of sanctions against Moraes based on the Magnitsky Act. Although they did not directly attribute the decision to advancing the plan to reduce the sentences of those convicted of the coups, members of the U.S. government mentioned the proposal as a point of interest for the United States.
The assessment of members of the Brazilian government is that mentioning the ongoing project in Congress is a way of imposing an internal narrative that the United States did not leave the negotiations empty-handed.
The Brazilian government considers that little by little the United States has lifted sanctions that also affected Americans, such as the removal of additional customs duties on a series of products. From now on, the issues that remain under negotiation mainly concern industrial products.
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