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Brazil braced Friday for possible new U.S. sanctions linked to former President Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on coup charges, after the administration of President Donald Trump warned it would respond “accordingly.”

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry called Rubio’s comments an inappropriate threat that would not intimidate the government, adding that the country’s judiciary is independent and that Bolsonaro was granted due process.

“Threats like the one made today by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a statement that attacks Brazilian authority and ignores the facts and compelling evidence in the case files, will not intimidate our democracy,” Brazil’s foreign office said on X.

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah this isn't how presidents and their cabinets work.

But for some reason the Republicans ignore their crybaby leader and his DEI hires since they all helped him get into office.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would argue that this is exactly how the US government has worked in the past, the difference was they knew how to keep their fucking mouths shut about it.

For instance the Iran Contra scandal, Cuba for the last 70 years, how many governments have we overthrown because they did something some American didn’t like?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The funny thing is that, every other time, it was about ensuring money flowed to 'murica and import prices kept dirt cheap (Brazil has suffered more than once from 'murican control of commodity markets like coffee and sugar). This time, the orange maniac is bombing 'murican economy because "haha fuck y'all"

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Exactly, like I can’t imagine Brazil has need of us for trade, meaning we don’t send them shit, and the things they have we probably aren’t getting from many other places

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 7 hours ago

Brazil imports a LOT of shit from USA and doesn't charge tariffs - USA has a superavit of ~410 billion dollars from the last 15 years of trade with Brazil- which means a good portion of our economy is effectively colonized by uncle Sam. I hope most of those things can be replaced with European or Chinese equivalents.

Meanwhile, the biggest losers on the green-yellow side are coffee (Brazil is responsible for roughly 30% of all the coffee USA imports) and orange juice (~64% of all OJ)