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Inside Bolsonarists’ campaign to impose US sanctions on Brazilian judges

Former president's son and his allies are lobbying US government to punish judges investigating 2022 coup attempt

By Alice Maciel, Laura Scofield and Maria Martha Bruno
Inside Bolsonarists’ campaign to impose US sanctions on Brazilian judges
Figueiredo (left) and Eduardo Bolsonaro at the White House - Photo from Bolsonaro's Instagram account
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The son of Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro and the grandson of a former Brazilian dictator are lobbying the US government to sanction Brazilian Supreme Court justices who have accused Bolsonaro of leading an attempted coup in 2022.

“I open the door, I'm the heart, but you're the brain,” Eduardo Bolsonaro, the former president’s third son, told businessman and journalist Paulo Figueiredo in a YouTube video discussing their campaign against the justices. Figueiredo’s grandfather, João Figueiredo, led Brazil’s military dictatorship from 1979 to 1985.

“You, Paulo, have contributed a lot,” continued Eduardo Bolsonaro, himself a deputy in Brazil’s lower parliamentary chamber, in the video, which was published on Figueiredo's YouTube channel on 27 May.

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