(10 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 10 July 2025
1. Various of container ships at Rio de Janeiro’s port
2. Newspaper cover with a picture of Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and US President Donald Trump and a text that reads (Portuguese) “Trump reaffirms support to Bolsonaro and punishes hostile acts of Lula’s government”
3. Man reading the newspaper on a newsstand
ASSOCIATED PRESS
São Paulo, Brazil – 10 July 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marco Teixeira, Political Science Professor at FGV:
“(Donald) Trump had already alerted on retaliations for BRICS (members) since he took office and when the story about using their own currency started, to deal with our own currency. Trump never admitted this. At the same time, there was the (BRICS) meeting in Rio and Bolsonaro’s trial, that’s why the letter mixes both subjects.”
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ARCHIVE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 7 July 2025
5. Various of BRICS and invited countries leaders at the family photo
6. Various of BRICS meeting
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: São Paulo, Brazil - 29 June 2025
7. Various of Bolsonaro at a demo
ASSOCIATED PRESS
São Paulo, Brazil – 10 July 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marco Teixeira, Political Science Professor at FGV:
“This, in a way, can produce a general negative effect in the economy. Brazil is an orange producer and our orange is widely consumed in Florida, in Texas, and Americans consume a lot of orange juice. So, an eventual rise in prices will be felt very quickly.”
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ARCHIVE: Mogi Guaçu, Brazil - 13 June 2024
9. Various of aerial shots of orange farm ++MUTE++
10. Orange harvest bags
11. Aerial shot of oranges being put in a truck +MUTE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Goianesia, Brazil - 13 June 2025
12. Various of cattle farm
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Bragança Paulista, Brazil – 4 April 2025
13. Aerial shot of the coffee plantation and workers harvesting coffee at Bocaina Farm ++MUTE++
14. Various of rural workers sifting coffee
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics are a driving force in the U.S. leader's use of tariffs.
Trump avoided his standard form letter with Brazil, specifically tying his tariffs to the trial of Bolsonaro, who is charged with trying to overturn his 2022 election loss. Trump has described Bolsonaro as a friend and hosted the former Brazilian president at his Mar-a-Lago resort when both were in power in 2020.
“This Trial should not be taking place,” Trump wrote in the letter posted on Truth Social. “It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!”
There is a sense of kinship as Trump was indicted in 2023 for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The U.S. president addressed his tariff letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who bested Bolsona... [truncated]
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