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"- I congratulate everyone for the pressure that keeps the wheels turning in defense of democracy in Brazil. Giving up is not an option, and it is you who fuel a prosperous future for our country.

- In recent days, Brazilians have witnessed events that have shed even more light on the serious setbacks to freedom in Brazil.

- X was banned for questioning court decisions that not only required the removal of specific posts but also the permanent deletion of profiles. This is prior censorship, a practice prohibited by the Constitution and a serious violation of fundamental rights.

- Worse: by banning the country's largest social network, it was not a company that was punished but millions of Brazilians, deprived of free access to information and the right to express themselves.

- Shortly before, the same justice censored *Folha de S.Paulo*, preventing it from publishing an interview with Filipe Martins, an innocent man imprisoned for more than six months without trial under the allegation of having taken a trip that never happened.

- The same justice turned a trivial discussion about an airport line into an "attack on democracy," making a law-abiding family part of an investigation without any legal justification.

- Starlink was also arbitrarily punished, becoming a collateral victim in a legal dispute of which it was not a part. This undermines legal security and investor confidence. Brazil should be a safe harbor for investment and innovation, but it drives away investors and rejects innovative companies.

- All this unfolds as revelations from Glenn Greenwald, published in *Folha de S.Paulo*, show that these inquiries ignore due legal process, with pre-selection of targets based on their political opinions rather than their actions.

- When justice acts selectively, we are all at risk. When prior censorship is normalized, we lose our freedom. When freedom of expression and the press are threatened, Democracy cries out for help.

- God, Homeland, Family, and Freedom."

"The Brazilian government condemns the series of coordinated and simultaneous explosions of hundreds of electronic communication devices that occurred today, the 17th, in Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of at least nine people, including a minor, as well as hundreds of injuries.

Such acts lead to a significant escalation of tensions in the region and exacerbate the risk of the conflict spreading. They also demonstrate that, regrettably, the multiple appeals by the international community for actors in the Middle East to exercise maximum restraint have been ineffective.

In this context, Brazil reiterates the imperative nature of full respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries and reaffirms its support for the strict implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

The Brazilian Embassy in Beirut has no record of Brazilian nationals among the victims and is committed to providing the necessary guidance to the Brazilian community amid the delicate security situation in Lebanon."

“The practice of lottery-type contests involving predictions of the 2024 election results with offers of financial or material advantages of any kind, which have the potential to interfere with the electoral process.”

“Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes is the vanguard of an international assault on freedom of speech against American citizens like Elon Musk. Freedom of Speech is a natural and inalienable right which knows no borders. The enforcers of censorship are not welcome in the land of the free, the United States.

We are all aware of the abuse of power by the Supreme Court in Brazil that is targeting Elon Musk and blocking access to X, a privately held American company. But the free speech rights of Americans are also under attack all over the world, and in many nations that we might not expect, With the No Censors on Our Shores Act, foreign government officials will be put on notice: Deny our citizens their First Amendment rights, and this country will deny you entry to America or show you the door."