President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian products if the country doesn’t meet a series of political demands, including dropping the charges against his ally Jair Bolsonaro.
Nicknamed the “Trump of the Tropics,” the far-right former Brazilian president Bolsonaro followed Trump’s lead in late 2022 and refused to concede his election loss to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro is being prosecuted for allegedly running a spy ring and masterminding a coup d’état to try to remain in power.
“The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a letter addressed to Lula.
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