Undue imposition of Magnitsky Act sanctions

The Brazilian Government receives with profound indignation the announcement, made by the U. S. Government, of the imposition of Magnitsky Act sanctions on the wife of Justice Alexandre de Moraes and on an institute linked to him. In a new attempt of undue interference in Brazilian internal affairs, the U.S. government tried to justify the adoption of the measure with falsehoods in the statement released this morning.

In the case of Brazil - a democracy that successfully defended itself against an attempted coup d’état - Trump administration’s use of the Magnitsky Act is not only an offense to the 201 years of friendship between the two countries. It also represents the politicization and distortion in the application of the law, as recently expressed by one of its co-authors, Congressman James McGovern. In a letter addressed last August to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, McGovern defined the Trump administration’s use of the Magnitsky Act as “disgraceful”, aimed at undermining the Brazilian judiciary’s efforts to defend democratic institutions and uphold rule of law”.

This new attack on Brazilian sovereignty will not achieve its goal of benefiting those who led the failed coup attempt, some of whom have already been convicted by the Supreme Federal Court. Brazil will not bow to this latest aggression.