Overview
- The U.S. Treasury removed de Moraes, his wife Viviane Barci de Moraes, and their family’s law firm from the sanctions list, unfreezing their U.S. assets.
- A senior U.S. official said keeping de Moraes listed was not consistent with U.S. foreign policy interests.
- Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that could cut Jair Bolsonaro’s roughly 27-year sentence to just over two years, pending Senate action and judicial recalculation.
- President Donald Trump had previously sanctioned de Moraes and imposed 50% tariffs on many Brazilian goods after Bolsonaro’s conviction, and many of those tariffs have since been rolled back.
- Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva welcomed the U.S. decision, while Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro criticized the move.