Trump desires to ‘colonize’ Brazil – Lula marketing campaign — RT World Information
A TV advert has accused the US president of meddling within the nation’s upcoming election to realize management of its pure sources
US President Donald Trump desires to “colonize” Brazil and acquire management of its pure sources by interfering within the nation’s upcoming presidential election, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s marketing campaign has stated.
Meta blocked the promoting account utilized by Lula’s marketing campaign on Fb simply days earlier than the primary spherical of the presidential election on October 4 wherein left-wing incumbent Lula is in search of a fourth time period towards his foremost rival, right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Latest polls have put the 2 candidates in a good race, with a runoff scheduled for October 25 if neither wins greater than half the vote.
In a minute-long tv commercial broadcast on Thursday, Lula’s marketing campaign accused Trump of meddling in Brazil’s election in a bid to show the nation again right into a colony and seize its pure sources. The video factors to US-funded political promoting focusing on Brazilian voters, alleged involvement by American tech firms, and an intelligence warning that the danger of US interference had reached a “vital stage.”
“Flavio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate,” the narrator says. “And what Trump desires is to colonize Brazil, to take our wealth, steal our future and go away us behind.”
Trump fiercely backed Flavio’s father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, throughout his trial over an alleged plot to overturn his 2022 election defeat and stay in energy.
Danger of US interference in Brazil at ‘vital stage’
The advert cited a confidential evaluation by the Brazilian Intelligence Company (ABIN), which was despatched to the presidency, the nation’s electoral courtroom, and the Justice Ministry. The doc warned of escalating US stress on Brazil and raised the danger of exterior affect or interference within the election to a “vital stage.”
“In line with ABIN, the stress from the US should enhance and Trump’s objective is to defeat Lula to manage our pure sources,” the marketing campaign advert says.
Lula echoed the accusation on X, stating that Bolsonaro desires to “hand our pure sources over to the US.” “If it’s as much as him, Brazil will turn out to be a colony once more,” the president wrote.
The marketing campaign video additionally advised direct hyperlinks between Bolsonaro’s marketing campaign and US political pursuits. “And now we all know that there’s American cash in Flavio’s marketing campaign,” the narrator says, pointing to Rockbridge Community, a secretive US donor community co-founded in 2019 by Vice President JD Vance and investor Chris Buskirk. Reuters has described the Silicon Valley-backed group as financing right-wing media, polling and voter-turnout operations to unfold Trump’s model of nationalism, with rich buyers together with Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer amongst its reported backers.
Brazilian media reported that Pedro Sang, described as a Rockbridge organizer in Brazil, helped arrange Bolsonaro’s marketing campaign headquarters in Sao Paulo and took on a management function there. Lula’s Employees’ Get together requested the Brazil’s Supreme Courtroom to analyze doable overseas financing, which is prohibited below Brazilian election regulation. Sang denied that Rockbridge supplied funding to political campaigns in Brazil.
Meta blocks Lula marketing campaign advertisements
Meta has in the meantime disabled the promoting account utilized by Lula’s marketing campaign on Fb, stopping it from operating new advertisements simply days earlier than the election. The marketing campaign stated the US tech large gave no clarification for the transfer and demanded that entry be restored, threatening authorized motion and describing the restriction as one other instance of alleged Large Tech interference within the vote.
“The proof of interference is all there, it retains occurring and we have now already denounced it publicly,” Employees’ Get together communications chief Eden Valadares stated. Meta has not publicly defined why the account was disabled.
The transfer follows a research printed final week that discovered Meta accredited 13 of 15 take a look at political advertisements paid for by a US-based account and focusing on Brazilian voters, together with an AI-generated video depicting Trump urging Brazilians to vote for Bolsonaro. The researchers didn’t really publish the advertisements, whereas Meta stated the experiment didn’t mirror the size of its efforts to guard the Brazilian election.
US hits Brazil with tariffs over Large Tech
Washington has ramped up financial and diplomatic stress on Brazil forward of the vote, imposing 25% tariffs on Brazilian imports in a dispute that observers say facilities on Large Tech regulation somewhat than commerce imbalances. The US Commerce Consultant cited Brazil’s remedy of American tech firms and courtroom orders forcing platforms to take away political content material, amongst different insurance policies, to justify the tariffs.
Washington additionally revoked the Brazilian ambassador’s visa in August as tensions escalated throughout the election marketing campaign. Lula’s authorities referred to as the transfer politically motivated interference.
Lula has solid the stress as a risk to Brazilian sovereignty. “We won’t permit the enemies of democracy – inner or exterior – to assault the need of the folks,” he informed the UN Basic Meeting this week. “Brazilian democracy belongs to the Brazilians.”
Venezuela raid fuels fears of US intervention
The alarm has unfold past Lula’s camp. Proper-wing presidential candidate Renan Santos has additionally accused Trump of wanting Brazil as a “vassal state,” to safe favorable rare-earth contracts and stated Brazil shouldn’t turn out to be a vassal of the US or China.
Santos pointed to the US army operation in Venezuela in January, when American forces captured President Nicolas Maduro and his spouse Cilia Flores and introduced them to the US to face drug and weapons expenses. Lula condemned the raid as the primary direct US army assault on South America in additional than 200 years of independence, whereas Santos warned: “I don’t wish to see Latin America turn out to be an American protectorate.”
The State Division final month shrugged off claims that the White Home was meddling in Brazil’s election, declaring that “any insinuation of a ‘ploy’ to undermine a democratic nation’s election is a baseless lie.”
