The Trump administration has issued fresh sanctions as the U.S. intensifies punitive measures in response to Brazil’s criminal prosecution of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Earlier this month, Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced Bolsonaro to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military coup after his election defeat in 2022. Trump officials have moved to sanction the wife of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who led the probe into Bolsonaro, a Trump ally. The coup plot included assassinating current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula took aim at Trump in his U.N. General Assembly speech yesterday.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: “There is no justification for unilateral and arbitrary measures against our institutions and our economy. The attack on the independence of the judiciary is unacceptable. This interference in internal affairs is aided by a subservient far right that longs for its former hegemony.”

Lula’s opening address came before President Trump’s speech.