Brazil’s Planalto Presidential Palace issued a official statement rejecting recent political actions promoted by former President Jair Bolsonaro’s family on U.S. soil, denouncing that unilateral negotiations with Washington — including a White House meeting between President Donald Trump and former Senator Flávio Bolsonaro — constitute flagrant sabotage against national sovereignty.

In that meeting, the U.S. administration classified Brazilian criminal gangs Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Capital Command) and Comando Vermelho (Red Command) as international terrorist organizations.

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The Brazilian Executive Branch categorically clarified the legal distinction between criminal terror imposed by mafias in peripheral neighborhoods and the global concept of terrorism, specifying that these gangs operate exclusively for material profit and lack ideological, political, or religious motivations.

Authorities in Brasília described the conduct of the right‑wing leaders as deplorable for seeking the guardianship of a foreign power to resolve matters of exclusive competence of the Brazilian State, warning that such manipulations aim to instrumentalize public security to open space for armed or legal interventions within national borders.

The presidency linked these destabilizing maneuvers to recent economic aggressions from the White House expressed through increased trade tariffs on Brazilian exports, warning that unilateral coercive measures seek to harm strategic financial tools of national technological sovereignty such as the Pix electronic payment system.

Vice President Geraldo Alckmin added his criticism of the Bolsonaro family clan’s actions, stating that they act in defense of their own private interests. The Brazilian government reaffirmed that local laws, police institutions, and local courts are the only ones legally empowered to define and combat internal crime.

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