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- author, Iara Diniz
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Some opposition lawmakers who spoke out on social media criticized US President Donald Trump, saying they felt betrayed and disappointed.
“The feeling, let’s not hide it, is that of betrayal. Certainly, the price asked by Trump was not low, and we will soon know if Lula offered Brazilian lands or support for the overthrow of Nicolás Maduro,” said the deputy leader of the opposition in the House, federal deputy Maurício Marcon (Podemos-RS), in a publication on X.
“Trump thought of the United States, with his slogan ‘American First’,” he added.
Rep. Carlos Jordy (PL-RJ) said the Magnitsky Act had been “trivialized” by Trump and that the U.S. president had been a “huge disappointment.”
“There is no such thing as a ‘former human rights violator’. Unfortunately, we placed our hopes in someone who just wanted to negotiate. A big disappointment for the American president and a huge lesson for us: let’s not outsource our responsibility,” he said.
MP Rodrigo Valadares (União-SE) also criticized him, saying that “the system has closed in on itself and its own interests” despite the “sacrifice” of Eduardo Bolsonaro.
The lifting of sanctions, announced this Friday (12/12), was defended by the Brazilian government during conversations with interlocutors of the North American administration.
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“It was Lula who put this repeal on the table of Donald Trump, in a proud and sovereign dialogue,” he declared.
“It is a great defeat for the family of Jair Bolsonaro, traitors who conspire against Brazil and against justice.”
The sanctions against Alexandre de Moraes were imposed in July, under pressure from the US government to try to influence the trial of Jair Bolsonaro for attempted coup.
In September, Moraes’ wife was also on the list, as was the business she ran with the couple’s three children.
Friday afternoon, shortly after the announcement of the end of the sanctions, Eduardo spoke on the subject.
In a publication on X, the parliamentarian published a joint note with the influencer Paulo Figueiredo. They said they received the news with “regret” but said they were “grateful for the support provided by President Trump during this process and for the attention he has given to this serious crisis of freedom affecting Brazil.”
Following the line of Eduardo, the leader of the PL in the House, the deputy Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ) also thanked Donald Trump for his “help”, declared that the application of the Magnitsky law “opened a window for Brazil” and that it was up to the Brazilians, now, to do their part.
“The war to oust the supreme left from power in Brazil will be ours, that of the Brazilians,” he wrote.
“Brazil either reacts now or normalizes the authoritarianism it has adopted.”
MP Mario Frias (PL-SP) asked not to look for culprits and “not to add fuel to the fire”.
“Those who suffer the most in this process are the innocent people who are political prisoners and President Bolsonaro himself. As he once said: this is not the end,” he said.
Reaction from the government base
Parliamentarians at the base of the government considered the lifting of sanctions as a defeat of Bolsonarism.
“This is a victory for Lula’s diplomacy and proof of the solidity of our democracy. It reveals the failure of Bolsonaro’s campaign to delegitimize Brazil abroad and attack our sovereignty,” Senator Humberto Costa (PT-PE) said on social media.
The leader of the PT in the Chamber of Deputies, Lindbergh Farias (PT), called this measure “a historic defeat of the country’s traitors who tried to negotiate international sanctions, the revocation of visas, customs duties and the so-called ‘financial death penalty’ against the minister.”
“New victory for President Lula’s diplomacy. Chemistry continues to give good results,” declared the parliamentarian.
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