三名参议院民主党议员警告特朗普政府不要干预即将举行的巴西总统选举。《国会山报》独家获得的一封信显示，新罕布什尔州民主党参议员珍妮·肖恩、弗吉尼亚州民主党参议员蒂姆·凯恩和佛蒙特州民主党参议员彼得·韦尔什周一在致国务卿马可·鲁比奥的信中警告称，美国不要干预巴西10月4日的选举。参议员们问道：“政府是否会承诺承认巴西2026年民主选举经认证的结果，并支持与由巴西人民自由、公平选出的任何候选人建立正常外交关系？”
A trio of Senate Democrats is warning the Trump administration against interference ahead of Brazil's presidential elections, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Hill. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday warned against U.S. meddling in the elections on Oct. 4. “Will the Administration commit to recognizing the certified outcome of Brazil's 2026 democratic elections and to supporting normal diplomatic relations with whichever candidate is freely and fairly chosen by the Brazilian people?” the senators asked, requesting that Rubio respond.
他们要求鲁比奥对此作出回应。特朗普总统一直乐于看到自己中意的右翼候选人在拉丁美洲各地获胜，但迄今尚未明确表态支持巴西的某位候选人。尽管如此，他仍以关税惩罚巴西，作为对其政治盟友——前右翼民粹主义总统雅伊尔·博索纳罗受审的报复。这名巴西前领导人于2025年9月被裁定犯有煽动政变以继续掌权的罪名。
President Trump has relished in the victories of his preferred right-wing candidates across Latin America but has so far held back an explicit endorsement in Brazil’s contest. Still, he has lashed out at the country with tariffs in retaliation for the trial of his political ally: former right-wing, populist president Jair Bolsonaro. The former Brazilian leader was convicted in September 2025 on charges of inciting a coup to stay in power.
特朗普近期还向博索纳罗之子弗拉维奥示好，后者是参加10月选举的13名候选人之一。民主党参议员特别点名了国务院负责西半球事务的争议性高级顾问达伦·比蒂，称正是他推动了一连串针对拉丁美洲人口最多的民主国家的强势行动。他们写道：“比蒂是一名臭名昭著的极右翼极端分子和白人至上主义者。他担任这一职务时，此前的公开言论已明确显示，他在意识形态上致力于破坏巴西的民主制度，并推动巴西极右翼的利益。”
Trump has recently extended favor to Bolsonaro’s son Flavio, one of 13 candidates running in the October election. The Democratic senators singled out the State Department’s controversial senior advisor for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Darren Beattie, as driving a pattern of aggressive actions against Latin America’s most populous democracy. “Beattie, a noted far-right extremist and white supremacist, came into this post with a record of public statements signaling an overt ideological commitment to undermining Brazil’s democratic institutions and advancing the interests of the Brazilian far right,” they wrote.
比蒂曾在特朗普第一任期任职，但在其参加白人至上主义者聚会的消息曝光后，被解除了演讲撰稿人的职务。他创办了右翼媒体Revolver News，据报道，该媒体放大了有关“1月……”的虚假阴谋论。
Beattie served Trump during his first term but was fired from his position as a speechwriter after it came out he attended a gathering of white supremacists. He founded the right-wing media outlet Revolver News, which reportedly amplified false conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
2021年1月6日国会大厦遭袭事件。据报道，贝蒂还在网上发表过贬损有色人种的言论。2月，贝蒂获任美国国务院职务，并以“高级顾问”这一称谓规避参议院确认程序。该机构官网称，截至2025年11月，他“一直是国务院巴西政策的主要发声人之一”。作为华盛顿与巴西利亚外交争端的一部分，贝蒂在3月被拒绝发放入境签证。
Beattie also reportedly made disparaging comments about people of color online. Beattie was appointed to his State Department role in February, avoiding Senate confirmation by using the term “senior advisor.”The agency's website says he has “acted as one of the department’s leading voices on Brazil policy as of November 2025.”Beattie was denied a visa to enter Brazil in March as part of a diplomatic row between Washington and Brasília.
巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦也参加了10月举行的选举，并表示签证被拒是因为特朗普政府阻止巴西卫生部长赴美。巴西外交部当时告诉路透社，贝蒂遗漏或伪造了“与此次访问原因有关的信息”。签证僵局只是特朗普与卢拉政府之间一系列高调争议中的一个。5月，特朗普邀请弗拉维奥·博索纳罗前往白宫椭圆办公室进行短暂会面，随后将巴西最大的两个毒品团伙列为恐怖组织——卢拉谴责此举是对巴西内政不可接受的干预。
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, also running in the October elections, said the visa was denied because the Trump administration blocked Brazil’s health minister from traveling to the U.S. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry told Reuters at the time that Beattie had omitted or falsified “relevant information regarding the reason for the visit." The visa standoff was just one of a pattern of high-profile controversies between Trump and Lula’s government. Trump welcomed Flavio Bolsonaro into the Oval Office for a short meeting in May, and then designated Brazil’s two biggest drug gangs as terrorist groups – a move Lula condemned as unacceptable interference in the country’s internal affairs.
特朗普还以报复为由对巴西加征关税。7月，美国以“不公平贸易行为”为由，对巴西加征25%的关税；此次调查始于特朗普与卢拉发生争执之后，并持续了一年。议员们在周一的信中写道：“如今，美国非但没有帮助捍卫巴西民主，反而通过外交、经济和政治施压，可能削弱该国的民主制度，破坏外界对巴西选举程序的信心，并进一步损害我们与美国这一战略盟友和贸易伙伴的关系。”
Trump has also deployed tariffs against Brazil as retaliation. In July, the U.S. imposed 25 percent tariffs on Brazil over “unfair trade practices” that came after a year-long investigation initiated in the aftermath of a spat between Trump and Lula. “Today, rather than helping defend Brazilian democracy, the United States is 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 U.S. ally and trading partner,” the senators wrote in Monday's letter.
“这些行动反映出特朗普政府在近期拉丁美洲各国选举进程中干预的一种更广泛且令人深感不安的模式……这种模式不仅可能破坏各国选举进程的完整性，还可能逐步侵蚀整个地区公众对民主程序和民主机构的信心。”
“These actions reflect a broader and deeply troubling pattern of interference by the Trump Administration in recent electoral processes across Latin America… This pattern risks not only undermining the integrity of electoral processes in individual countries but also progressively eroding public confidence in democratic processes and institutions across the region.”