The Brazilian Foreign Ministry He summoned Gabriel Escobar on Wednesday, a business manager of the US embassy in the country, to explain a note released by that legation that makes an energetic defense of former president Jair Bolsonarowho responds to a criminal trial for coup.
Official sources told Efe that Gabriel Escobar, responsible for the diplomatic legation in the absence of an ambassador, was summoned after, on Wednesday, that embassy published a tough note about the trial that cursa against Bolsonaro, which had already been criticized this week by the president Donald Trump.
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The grade in question states that “Jair Bolsonaro and his family have been strong members of the United States” and affirms that “the political persecution against him, his family and his followers is shameful and disrespect the democratic traditions of Brazil.”
It also reinforces “the statement of President Trump” and adds that the embassy continues “up to that situation” and that “does not comment on the state department’s actions in relation to specific cases.”
The note followed the tone adopted by Trump in messages he published last Monday and on Tuesday night on his social Truth network.
“I will be very attentive to the hunt for witches against Jair Bolsonaro, his family and thousands of his followers. The only judgment that should exist is the trial of the voters of Brazil – it is called an election.” Leave Bolsonaro alone! “He wrote.
He also said that “Brazil is treating the former president terrible” and said that he has “observed, like the world, how they have not done anything other than chase him, day after day, night after night, month after month, year after year. He is not guilty of anything, except having fought for the people!” He said.
Trump’s first message motivated an immediate response from the head of state of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who gave the matter institutional and reacted through an official presidency note.
“The defense of democracy in Brazil is an issue that competes with Brazilians. We are a sovereign country. We do not accept interference or guardianship of whoever it is,” said Lula.
Bolsonaro, who ruled between 2019 and 2022when he coincided for two years with the first mandate of Trumphe is accused of having planned, together with military bosses and former ministers, various plans to prevent Lula’s investiture after the victory of the progressive leader in the elections of October 2022.
That plot, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, led to the assault on January 8, 2023, when thousands of Bolsononians destroyed the headquarters of the Presidency, Parliament and the Supreme in Brasiliaand demanded that the Armed Forces overthrow the new government.
The trial is in the Supreme Court, which last month concluded the instruction phase of the process, which will be expected to be ready for sentence between September and October.
