唐纳德·特朗普的帝国主义政府及其盟友正死死盯着巴西大选——民主党人和巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦对此敲响了警钟。
Donald Trump’s imperialistic administration and its allies are locked in on Brazil’s election — and Democrats and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are sounding the alarm.
卢拉将在周日的总统选举中对阵弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗。博尔索纳罗的父亲——前巴西总统雅伊尔·博尔索纳罗（特朗普的盟友）——去年因发动一场“1月6日”风格的未遂政变而被定罪。自那以后，特朗普政权一直就该案针对卢拉和巴西政府，甚至发出了可能采取军事行动的威胁。例如，特朗普毫无根据地声称老博尔索纳罗是“政治迫害”的受害者，以此为对巴西商品征收50%的关税辩护。我的同事史蒂夫·贝嫩在这篇发表于MS NOW的文章中，总结了特朗普政府针对巴西官员的一系列相关攻击。
Lula is facing Flávio Bolsonaro in Sunday’s presidential election. Bolsonaro’s father — former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally — was convicted last year of launching a Jan. 6-style coup attempt And ever since, Trump’s regime has targeted Lula and Brazil’s government over the prosecution, including threats of potential military action Trump, for instance, baselessly claimed the elder Bolsonaro was the victim of a“witch hunt” while justifying a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods. My colleague Steve Benen summed up a bunch of the Trump administration’s related attacks on Brazilian officials in this post for MS NOW.
在日益走向非自由化的美国之后，作为西半球第二大民主国家，巴西的政治受到崇尚威权的MAGA运动干预的努力，在过去一年里暴露无遗。正因如此，数十名民主党人上周致信国务卿马可·鲁比奥，要求其给出答复，并承诺美国政府将尊重即将到来的选举结果。签署这封信的包括纽约州民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯，以及佛蒙特州无党派参议员伯尼·桑德斯。
authoritarian-loving MAGA movement’s efforts to influence politics in Brazil — the second-largest democracy in the Western Hemisphere after the increasingly illiberal U.S. — have been laid bare over the past year. That’s why dozens of Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week demanding answers and a commitment that the administration will respect the upcoming election results. The signees included Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and a single senator, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
“在特朗普总统的第二个任期内，我们目睹美国官员对巴西进行了一场持续且多层次的干涉与 destabilization 行动，”他们在信中写道，并列举了据称构成“对巴西国家主权的严重侵犯”的行为。该信还提及特朗普政府任命达伦·比蒂（Darren Beattie）为负责巴西事务的高级顾问。比蒂曾公开表示：“如果你想让事情正常运转，就必须由有能力的白人男性来掌权。”比蒂曾谴责南美国家在博索纳罗案中的司法系统，并称卢拉代表了“最具破坏性和腐蚀性”的共产主义版本。
“Over the course of President Trump’s second term, we have seen U.S. officials engage in a sustained, multifaceted campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil,” they wrote, citing actions they said amount to an “extraordinary infringement on Brazil’s national sovereignty.”The letter also cites the Trump administration’s appointment of Darren Beattie — who has openly stated that “[c]ompetent white men must be in charge if you want things to work” — as a senior adviser overseeing Brazil Beattie has denounced the South American country’s judiciary over the Bolsonaro case and has said Lula represents “the most destructive and corrosive version” of communism.
与此同时，科技政策媒体（Tech Policy Press）最近聚焦于Meta公司——由特朗普盟友马克·扎克伯格领导——如何暂时限制卢拉竞选页面上的政治广告，并短暂下架了一个发布了将小博索纳罗与各种政治丑闻联系在一起的病毒式视频的Instagram账号。文章还提到了“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）阵营中其他人的努力，例如前众议员马特·盖茨（Matt Gaetz，佛罗里达州共和党人），他试图推广支持博索纳罗的社交媒体帖子。
Meanwhile, Tech Policy Press recently spotlighted how Meta — led by Trump ally Mark Zuckerberg— temporarily restricted political ads on Lula’s campaign pages and briefly took down an Instagram profile that had posted a viral video associating the younger Bolsonaro with various political scandals. The article also mentions efforts by others in MAGA world, such as former Rep. Matt Gaetz R-Fla., to promote social media posts boosting Bolsonaro.
因此，似乎“美国优先”运动正在发动一场全面的外国影响力行动。而这只是这一趋势的一部分。
So it seems the “America First” movement is waging a full-blown foreign influence campaign. And this is part of a trend.
自特朗普重返白宫以来，其政府在白人至上主义者的支持下，为主导西半球而将目光聚焦拉丁美洲。该政府已扣押并监禁了委内瑞拉领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗，并试图扶植一个更符合美国商业利益的新政府。它实际上拨出数百亿美元美国纳税人的钱，援助阿根廷那个亲“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）的政府，以帮助特朗普盟友哈维尔·米莱赢得那里的总统大选。
Ever since Trump’s return to office, his administration has been focused on Latin America in its white nationalist-backed push to dominate the Western Hemisphere. The administration has already seized and imprisoned Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and sought to prop up a new government more favorable to the U.S.’ commercial interests. It effectively allocated tens of billions of American tax dollars for Argentina’s MAGA-friendly government in order to help Trump ally Javier Milei win his presidential election there.
它试图通过封锁在古巴煽动政权更迭，实际上剥夺了岛上居民生存所需的资源。而现在，总统及其盟友已介入巴西总统大选。卢拉在上周的联合国大会上谴责了此类行径。
It has tried to spark regime change in Cuba with embargoes that have effectively deprived the island’s residents of resources they need to survive And now, the president and his allies have gotten involved in Brazil’s presidential election. Lula rebuked such efforts at last week’s United Nations General Assembly.
“我们绝不允许民主的敌人，无论是国内的还是外国的，来破坏民众意愿，”他说，“巴西的民主属于巴西人。巴西将继续是一个主权国家。没有人能让我们偏离这条道路。”
“We will not allow the enemies of democracy, whether domestic or foreign, to undermine popular will,”he said“Brazilian democracy belongs to Brazilians. Brazil will continue to be a sovereign country. Nobody will turn us away from this path.”
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