The Brazilian government condemned this Tuesday "threats of the use of force" against it, after the White House assured that Donald Trump "is not afraid to use economic and military power" in the midst of the trial for coup d'etat of his ally Jair Bolsonaro.

"The Brazilian government condemns the use of economic or threats of the use of force against our democracy,” said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Trump “is not afraid to use economic and military power to protect freedom of expression around the world,” said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, when asked about possible new measures against Brazil following the tariffs imposed in retaliation for the Bolsonaro trial.

The statement was made during a press conference in Washington after Leavitt was asked about a possible conviction against the former Brazilian head of state.

The latter, in reference to the 50% tariff imposed by the United States on a large part of Brazilian imports, in response to alleged judicial and political persecution that Bolsonaro is suffering, according to the Republican.

Attempt to “instrumentalize governments”

Likewise, the Brazilian government reiterated that the powers of the Republic “will not be intimidated by any form of attack” on sovereignty and repudiated “the attempt of antidemocratic ways of using foreign governments to coerce national institutions.”

The specter of a new retaliation by the United States government against Brazil increased this last week, in which the final phase of the coup trial facing the far-right leader and seven of his former collaborators began.

This Tuesday, Bolsonaro and some of his former ministers and military commanders came closer to being convicted of orchestrating an attempted coup d'etat to prevent the current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, from taking office, after the vote in favor of two of the five judges of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court.

The rapporteur of the case, Alexandre de Moraes,The Supreme Court, which has already been subject to various sanctions by the United States for this reason, requested in its conclusions the conviction of all of them because "there is no doubt" that they conspired to annul Lula's electoral victory in 2022 and impose "a dictatorship."

The Supreme Court sessions will resume this Wednesday with the vote of the three remaining judges and only after that will the sentence that will determine the future of Bolsonaro, currently under house arrest, be set.