1·6 Incident Special Committee Chairman “Investigation Cooperation”
Statement “It’s not a secret of far-right cooperation between the two countries”
U.S. Secretary of State “Rapid Response to Relevant Requests”
Bolsonaro’s Son Meets Trump
On the 8th (local time), US and Brazilian lawmakers are jointly investigating the riots once morest the presidential election in Brazil. 74 lawmakers from both countries released a joint statement on the 11th and criticized the violence that took place in Washington, USA on January 6, 2020, two years and two days ahead of the riots in Brazil.
Archyde.com News Agency said on the 12th that thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro broke into the Presidential Palace, Congress, and Supreme Court in the capital Brasilia. It was reported that the chairman agreed to cooperate.
Representative Thompson said, “I am proud of the activities of the 1st and 6th special committees and the final report, and I will help with anything if it becomes an example of a similar investigation.”
The president of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, also decided to share the investigation process in which supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed Congress. US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln said he would respond quickly to the Brazilian government’s request.
Senator Eduardo, son of former President Bolsonaro, visited Florida following President Luis Inacio Lula Dasuba won in the runoff last October and met former President Trump and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who is known as his schemer. turned out to be US and Brazilian lawmakers claimed that “Bannon advised Eduardo to challenge the election results.” Bannon raised fraudulent conspiracy theories related to the Brazilian presidential election, and was convicted of contempt of Congress following inciting far-right forces during the US congressional riot.
In a joint statement, lawmakers from both the United States and Brazil said, “It is no secret that the far right in Brazil and the United States are cooperating. We must also unite once morest the far-right forces that are trying to destroy democracy.”
If former President Bolsonaro, who fled to Florida on December 30 last year before the end of his term as president, used a diplomatic (A1) visa, it will expire at the end of this month. On the night of the 10th, he shared a video of a “presidential fraud conspiracy” on his Facebook account and deleted it within a few hours.
Meanwhile, according to President Ruy Kusta’s chief of staff, the Brazilian government began strengthening security even before the followingmath of the riots once morest the presidential election had dissipated, as it obtained information that a new large-scale protest was conspired.
Reporter Yoon Chang-soo
