To be clear, there is no arrest warrant against me because I have committed no crime. What exists is a politically motivated witch hunt aimed at holding me hostage and making me an object of blackmail to protect corrupt Supreme Court justices.
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Impeachment. Here's the script for the persecution: passport seizure, electronic ankle bracelet, censorship, house arrest, sham trial, and finally, political conviction. I will not subject my family to this, and my country does not deserve to go through this international embarrassment again. Faced with the political manipulation of the justice system in Brazil, I brought my family to the United States, where we are safe. I thank, once again, President Trump and the American government for welcoming us and giving us the legal security that we no longer have in Brazil.
I want to make it clear: I didn't flee Brazil, I left for Brazil, I left an exceptional regime so I could be the leader my people deserve, because silenced, imprisoned and censored, as my father is, I couldn't be that leader and we would be delivered to the institutional theater of an opposition castrated and controlled by the Supreme Court full of servants of the regime.
I am not the first to have had to fight for my own country far from it. Rui Barbosa went into exile for confronting the arbitrary rule of Floriano Peixoto and from there continued to defend law and liberty. Charles de Gaulle led Free France from London, condemned to death by the Vichy regime, and returned to liberate his country. José Marti organized the fight for Cuban independence from New York. In Venezuela, Juan Guaidó and Edmundo González had to leave the country to confront the Chavista dictatorship, and Maria Corina Machado, even persecuted, refused to legitimize the fraud and became a global symbol of democratic resistance. All of them were treated as criminals by the regimes they opposed. History called them something else. cont...