Brazilian president says he has 'forbidden' Trump adviser from visiting country

[Jilly_in_VA]

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said he has “forbidden” one of Donald Trump’s advisers from visiting the South American country in retaliation for his health minister being denied a US visa.

Darren Beattie, a far-right political strategist who was recently tapped for a senior advisory role on Brazil, had reportedly hoped to use a trip to the country to visit the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup to stop Lula taking power after the 2022 election. Beattie is a longstanding critic of Brazil’s judiciary and president and once called the moderate leftwing leader a representative of “the most destructive and corrosive version” of communism.

On Friday, after a supreme court judge refused Beattie permission to visit the incarcerated politician, Lula announced he had given orders for the Trump aide’s visa to be revoked.

“That American guy who said he was coming here to visit Bolsonaro, he’s been barred from visiting and I have forbidden him from coming to Brazil so long as they don’t free up the visa of my health minister, which has been blocked,” Lula said during an event at a trauma centre in Rio de Janeiro.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/13/brazilian-president-lula-forbidden-trump-adviser-darren-beattie-visiting

Good for him!

[wnylib]

1. Brazil dealt better with Bolsonaro than we did with Trump.

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[Jilly_in_VA]

2. FACTS

[Initech]

7. Seriously. January 6th should have been the end.

The goon squad should be rotting in prison.

[paleotn]

14. Absolutely!!

Guess they didn't have to contend with their version of Merrick Garland.

[The Madcap]

3. Brazil will be after Cuba

On the hit list of Jowlius Sleazer.

[wnylib]

4. If we have any military left by then.

People will stop enlisting and if the draft is reinstated the country will see a drain of draft age men. I say men.because the Trump regime has already declared that women are not fit for combat.

Trump would likely deal with that issue by posting guards at the borders and also refusing flights out of the country for potential draftees.

[erronis]

10. Trying to stop draftees from leaving the country - just like putin tried. Which caused a huge exodus.

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I actually think the outcome of a draft to fight trump's wars will cause a real rebellion in the US. He's much less popular than Johnson and Nixon back during the Vietnam draft.

[popsdenver]

15. I would guess the Republican Supreme Court

would authorize his drafting of only Mexicans and Blacks.........Much Like McNamar's Morons in 67*68.......

Cheney had to use Haliburton hires for everything in IRAQ except combat soldiers, for fear of using the draft and witnessing the massive protests in America the last time that was done.......

[Cha]

5. Yes, Good. Keep that Fascist Traitor

Asshole out of Brazil.

[progressoid]

6. "That American guy..."

[AverageOldGuy]

8. da Silva better listen closely

For the sound of helicopters in the night.

[twodogsbarking]

9. Trump best learn how they say "fuck you" in Portuguese.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. And that's how you do it

[paleotn]

12. When your to the right of Atilla the Hun, everyone else looks like a commie.

Maybe it ain't us, dude. Maybe it's you.

[SpankMe]

13. "...Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup to stop Lula taking power..."

I'd like to replace a few words in this phrase from the article:

"...former president Donald Trump, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup to stop Biden taking power after the 2020 election."

Let's make this come true, shall we?