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Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

Top US diplomat in Brazil summoned to foreign ministry over Bolsonaro trial comments

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Jair Bolsonaro speaks in Brasília last month. Photograph: Mateus Bonomi/AFP/Getty Images

Brazil’s foreign ministry has summoned the US chargé d’affaires after the embassy posted comments about the trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, as relations between the two countries continue to deteriorate.

On Thursday, the embassy published a social media post in Portuguese criticising the supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the cases against Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged coup attempt.

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