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U.S. removes Brazilian Supreme Court justice, his wife from sanctions list
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The US removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list on Friday (December 12, 2025) after initially adding him over his role in leading the trial against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Mr. De Moraes' wife and the Lex Institute, which she leads, were also taken off the list, according to documents from the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Brazil's government celebrated the move, which came after a weekend phone conversation between President Donald Trump and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The Trump administration had sanctioned the judge in July, accusing him of using his position to authorise arbitrary pre-trial detentions and suppress freedom of expression in Brazil.
A senior Trump administration official said the sanctions were lifted since the US saw the passage of an important amnesty bill by Brazil's lower house as a signal that lawfare conditions in Brazil are improving. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the administration's views on foreign policy interests.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves a hospital | Photo Credit: Reuters
The move represents a thawing of sorts in the frosty relationship between the two governments and follows a number of meetings and calls that both have described in positive terms. Trump had seen Lula's predecessor Bolsonaro as an ally, with the Brazilian leader even dubbed the "Trump of the Tropics" when he came into office.
Bolsonaro was accused of masterminding a plot to stay in power despite his 2022 election defeat to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — similar charges to what Mr. Trump faced after a mob of his supporters attacked the US Capitol in 2021 to stop Democrat Joe Biden from taking the White House.
Bolsonaro was convicted and sentenced to more than 27 years in prison. The embattled 70-year-old leader started serving his sentence last month while still requesting to be put on house arrest due to his poor health. The massive upheaval his allies expected upon his arrest did not materialise, though he remains a politically powerful figure ahead of next year's elections.
Brazil's current government characterised the lifting of sanctions as a "big defeat" for Bolsonaro's family.
It was Lula who put this repeal (of the sanctions) on Donald Trump's desk, in a dignifying and sovereign dialogue," said Gleisi Hoffmann, Brazil's minister for institutional relations. "It is a big defeat for the family of Jair Bolsonaro, traitors who have conspired against Brazil and the judiciary.
Lula's leftist administration has long accused Eduardo Bolsonaro, a lawmaker and son of the former president, of misleading Trump on de Moraes and other members of the court. For his part, Eduardo Bolsonaro said he received the news of the sanctions being lifted from de Moraes "with regret."
The younger Bolsonaro, who announced in March that he would start living in the U.S. in order to lobby the Trump administration to help his father avoid jail, said he would continue to fight for Jair Bolsonaro.
The lack of internal cohesion and the insufficient support for initiatives pursued abroad contributed to the worsening of the current situation," Eduardo Bolsonaro wrote on his social media channels, after Trump's reversal. "We sincerely hope that President Donald Trump's decision will be successful in defending the strategic interests of the American people, as is his duty.
In initially sanctioning de Moraes, the Treasury Department had cited the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which targets perpetrators of human rights abuse and corrupt officials. De Moraes said the use of the act against him was "illegal and regrettable."
Also in July, the Trump's administration imposed a 40 per cent tariff on Brazilian products on top of a 10 per cent tariff imposed earlier, justifying the tariffs by saying that Brazil's policies and criminal prosecution of Bolsonaro constituted an economic emergency.
Political consultant Thomas Traumann, the author of a recent book on Brazil's political divisions, said the move shows "the US government wants a normal relationship with Brazil, even though it has a leftist administration."
"Trump removed almost all tariffs it had increased, stopped discussing politics with Lula, now it is all about security and trade, and he managed to make Brazil's government somewhat neutral in other Latin American affairs, especially Venezuela," Traumann said. "This is a process to show Brazil needs to be treated differently in the region.”
The two leaders started mending fences at the United Nations' General Assembly in September, which was followed by their first private meeting in Malaysia in October and subsequent phone conversations.
The Brazilian president has said he was not only trying to reverse the increase on tariffs but also to end the sanctions on de Moraes and some members of his government who were also hit by the measure.
Published - December 13, 2025 07:12 am IST
Brazil / USA
Source: The Hindu
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