31名美国国会民主党议员致信国务卿马可·卢比奥，批评特朗普政府“明显试图干涉并破坏”巴西的选举进程。
A group of 31 Democratic members of the US Congress has sent a letter to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, criticising the Trump administration over “an apparent effort to interfere with, and potentially undermine” Brazil’s elections.
作为拉丁美洲最大的国家，巴西将于10月4日举行总统选举的第一轮投票。民调显示，现任左翼总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦与极右翼参议员弗拉维奥·博索纳罗的支持率势均力敌。
Latin America’s largest country will hold the first round of its presidential election on 4 October, with polls showing a technical tie between the incumbent leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
在周四发出的这封信中，30名众议院议员和参议员伯尼·桑德斯列举了美国政府采取的一系列措施，认为这些措施旨在帮助博索纳罗获胜（博索纳罗是前总统贾伊尔·博索纳罗的儿子）。他们指出，这些行为“反映了特朗普政府近期在拉丁美洲多个选举过程中持续、多方面的干涉行为”，并提到了阿根廷的中期选举以及洪都拉斯和哥伦比亚的总统选举。
In the letter sent to Rubio on Thursday, 30 members of the House of Representatives and the senator Bernie Sanders listed a series of measures the US government took that they interpret as attempts to secure a victory for Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. They wrote that those actions “reflect a broader and deeply troubling pattern of interference by the Trump administration in recent electoral processes across Latin America”, citing the recent midterm elections in Argentina and presidential elections in Honduras and Colombia.
早在7月，就有11名民主党议员曾致信指出特朗普试图干涉哥伦比亚的选举，以支持那位极右翼富豪兼前律师阿贝尔拉多·德拉埃斯普里埃拉；德拉埃斯普里埃拉最终在选举中获胜。
In July, a group of 11 Democratic members of Congress sent a similar letter arguing that Trump was trying to interfere in Colombia’s election in favour of the far-right millionaire and former lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, who went on to win the second round.
在周四的信中，这些议员强调：在特朗普执政期间，美国政府对巴西实施了持续、多方面的干涉和破坏稳定行动。他们还提到，特朗普去年对巴西征收关税时明确表示，其中一个原因是博索纳罗曾试图在2022年选举中发动政变；博索纳罗最终被判有罪，由于被软禁而无法参选，因此由他的儿子接替其总统职位。
In Thursday’s letter, the lawmakers wrote that US officials under Trump have engaged in a “sustained, multifaceted campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil”. They noted that when Trump imposed his first tariffs on Brazil last year, he made clear that one reason was Bolsonaro’s trial over his attempt to stage a coup after losing the 2022 election to Lula. The former president was ultimately convicted and, unable to run because he is under house arrest, named his son to take his place.
他们还提到了特朗普于7月根据美国贸易法第301条对巴西征收的新关税，以及美国政府计划派遣两名官员前往巴西、试图“质疑该国选举制度的公正性”的行为；许多专家认为巴西的选举制度是全球最可靠的选举制度之一。卢拉政府最终拒绝了美国代表团的签证申请。
They also cited new tariffs that Trump imposed on Brazil in July under section 301 of US trade law, as well as plans by the US government to send two officials to Brazil to “cast doubt on the integrity of the country’s voting system, considered by many experts to be among the most reliable in the world”. The Lula administration ultimately denied the US delegation visas.
巴西总统多次抱怨特朗普试图干涉巴西的选举，并在本周联合国大会的开幕演讲中表示（未指名道姓）：“我们绝不允许任何内部或外部的民主敌人违背人民的意愿行事。”在周五发给卢比奥的信中，这些民主党议员写道：“美国非但没有帮助捍卫巴西的民主，反而充当了干涉和破坏稳定的工具——通过外交、经济和政治压力来削弱巴西的民主制度，破坏人们对巴西选举过程的信任，并进一步损害我们与美国这一重要盟友及贸易伙伴之间的关系。”
The Brazilian president has repeatedly complained that Trump is trying to interfere in Brazil’s elections and, in his speech opening the UN general assembly this week, said, without naming anyone: “We will not allow the enemies of democracy, internal or external, to act against the will of the people.” In the letter sent to Rubio on Friday, the Democratic lawmakers wrote that “rather than helping defend Brazilian democracy”, the US is “acting as an agent of interference and destabilization – using diplomatic, economic and political pressure in ways that risk weakening the country’s democratic institutions, undermining confidence in Brazil’s electoral process, and inflicting further damage on our relationship with a strategic US ally and trading partner”.
他们要求卢比奥说明特朗普政府是否会尊重巴西的选举程序，并要求他在10月1日前给出答复。美国国务院尚未对这一请求作出任何回应。
They asked Rubio if Trump’s administration would commit to respecting Brazil’s electoral process and requested a response by 1 October. The state department has not yet responded to a request for comment.