In saying in a statement in the House of Representatives that Minister Alexandre de Moraes is well founded by Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio transformed into government policy what seemed, above all, mutual support speech between political groups.
The conditions are created for a serious diplomatic crisis between Brazil and the United States.
For, regardless of the merits of the matter – whether or not Moraes committed crimes against human rights, as Marco Rubio suggests – the fact is that the Washington government raised to the institutions level what was here at the political debate plan.
Moraes is the main driver of the judgment on the STF of former President Jair Bolsonaro, which the US Secretary of State implicitly admitted to being a victim of political persecution.
In this trial, the last prosecution witness, the former Air Force commander, today reiterated central points of the prosecutor’s complaint, according to which the former president presented to the military commanders a draft of a coup.
In meetings in which, the former FAB commander said, he was said to arrest Moraes himself.
It is considered very low the likelihood that the Supreme Court will give in to American pressures – they will probably have the opposite effect.
Of course, the American threat against Moraes ignites a relevant part of the Brazilian opposition.
But it is not so clear that it will achieve greater slices of the political spectrum towards the center, for example.
After all, it is a foreign government whose method is the attack, getting into a matter that is ours alone.
This content was originally published in Waack: Rubio prepares ground for crisis between Brazil and USA on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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