The US authorities on Sunday provided “unwavering” help for Brazil’s democracy as condemnation poured in from around the globe in opposition to mobs that smashed their approach into the halls of energy in Brasilia.
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez assailed the “coup try” by supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro who stormed Congress, the Supreme Court docket and the presidential palace.
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Fellow South American leaders in Chile, Colombia and Venezuela deplored the mob motion, and French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted his help for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the leftist who took workplace as Brazil’s chief per week in the past.
“The need of the Brazilian folks and the democratic establishments should be revered!” Macron tweeted.
US Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan tweeted that “President (Joe) Biden is following the scenario carefully and our help for Brazil’s democratic establishments is unwavering.”
Brazil’s democracy, he added, “won’t be shaken by violence.”
The European Union’s high overseas affairs official, Josep Borrell, tweeted that he was “appalled by the acts of violence and unlawful occupation of Brasilia’s authorities quarter by violent extremists at the moment…
“Brazilian democracy will prevail over violence and extremism,” he added.
The twitter account of Democrats on the US Senate overseas relations committee famous that the Brasilia ransacking got here practically two years to the day after supporters of then-president Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in an try to overturn the 2020 election, leaving 5 lifeless.
“Trump’s legacy continues to poison our hemisphere,” the tweet mentioned.
Across the Western hemisphere, response was significantly swift from leaders ideologically akin to Lula.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tweeted: “Lula just isn’t alone, he has the help of the progressive forces of his nation, of Mexico, of the American continent and of the world.”
Chilean President Gabriel Boric decried “this cowardly and vile assault on democracy” and mentioned the Lula authorities has Chile’s “full backing.”
Venezuelan chief Nicolas Maduro, a leftist authoritarian, condemned what he referred to as the “neofascist teams” searching for to unseat Lula.