The United States warns against responding to a “witch of chasing” after Brazil Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the United States “will respond according to this” to what he called “the witch’s chase” against former Brazilian President Gere Bolsonaro, without specifying how.

The notes came shortly after the sentence of the Brazilian Supreme Court of Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison and three months after being convicted of planning a coup to cancel the 2022 elections.

Rubio said in a After Thursday late In the United States, “political persecution by human rights aggressor, Alexander de Mora” continues.

the US Treasury On July 30, penalties were imposed on the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court judge Alexander de MoraisWho was the target of criticism by the president Donald Trump To deal with legal issues that include the former Brazilian president Gear Bolsonaro.

On the same day, Trump A slap tariff of up to 50 % Most of the Brazilian products have been tried in Bolsonaro to try to the alleged coup, as it attracted a reaction from the current president in the country, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The Brazilian leader denounced Washington About Brazil’s national sovereigntySaying that his nation “will not accept the control of anyone,” according to Google’s translation of social media.

Da Silvia added that the case against those who planned a coup is a matter only for the country’s judicial system and “is not subject to any reasoning or threats that undermine the independence of national institutions.”

He also pledged to take revenge on “any unilateral tariff”, and refuted allegations that the United States has a trade deficit with Brazil. Da Silvia has been martyred in US official customs data, which has shown a surplus of about $ 410 billion in trade in goods and services with Brazil over the past fifteen years.

The surplus of commodity trade in the United States with Brazil reached $ 154 billion from 2010 to 2024, according to Census numbers.

Polsonaro, a close ally of Trump, and his allies on Washington to interfere in the case on his behalf. Last month, Bolsonaro, a member of the Brazilian Congress, is also a member of the Brazilian Congress, Meet with US Treasury Secretary Scott Payette, according to what was reported to pay for sanctions against the officials participating in the trial.

“The bilateral relationship has reached” its lowest point in decades. “

Morningsar said that the possible measures conducted by Washington included an increase in the rate of customs tariffs on Brazil, the removal of the exemptions of the current customs tariffs and the expansion of financial sanctions on the members of the Brazilian government. “The relationship was seized on the exacerbation before it improved.”

The 70 -year -old condemnation of Bolsonaro made the first former president in the country’s history condemning the threat of democracy.

Four of the five judges voted in favor of Bolsonaro’s conviction on charges of sought to adhere to power by planning a military coup that included plans to assassinate Da Silva.