The US decision to target Pix, Brazil's beloved and technologically sophisticated payment system, is likely to produce an anti-American backlash and damage Flávio Bolsonaro's chances of getting elected in October.
The thing about the Brazilian payment system Pix is that it’s superior to US alternatives and Brazilians know it. Attacking it thus makes the US look like a bad loser. Pix succeeded because it’s better, not because of unfair trade practices.
@EmbaixadaEUA Tenham vergonha! Vocês são destruidores de democracias pelo mundo. Não é à toa que não reconhecem o TPI. Todos os governos dos EUA teriam sido condenados. Torturam, invadem, desestabilizam, interferem. A tal Pax-Americana é um fracasso. Golpistas!
I spent years fighting for the Magnitsky Act to be passed to end impunity against gross human rights abusers and kleptocrats. As far as I’m aware Brazilian Judge Moraes doesn’t fall into either of those categories.