Members of the Lula (PT) government and their allies celebrated the lifting of sanctions imposed by the Magnitsky law against the Minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), Alexandre de Moraes. The removal of the magistrate’s name from the list of sanctioned people was announced this Friday (12).
Minister Gleisi Hoffmann (Institutional Relations), responsible for the political articulation of the government, commented on the fact online and attributed the victory to the president.
“The lifting of American 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 Donald Trump, in a proud and sovereign dialogue. It is a great defeat for the family of Jair Bolsonaro, traitors who conspired against Brazil and against justice.”
The tone was the same as that used by the leader of the PT in the House, Lindbergh Farias, who congratulated Lula and Moraes.
“You managed to put Brazil back on the path of dialogue after all the sabotage committed by the Bolsonaro family, who acted as traitors to the country, imposing tariffs and sanctions on the ministers of the Supreme Court,” he said in a video.
Moraes was punished by the Donald Trump government on July 30. At the time, Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there had been “serious human rights violations” by the STF minister.
The US government also removed Moraes’ wife, Viviane Barci, and the company Lex – Instituto de Estudos Jurídicas, which belongs to the magistrate’s family, from the sanctions list.
The Magnitsky Act addresses serious human rights violations, including those committed by dictators, and the decision to use it for a Brazilian authority was unprecedented. The United States applied the same sanction to members of Venezuela’s highest courts.
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