Sérgio Moro: We do, indeed, have to organize ourselves to toughen legislation, to organize task forces to dismantle them.
Sérgio Moro: But it is evident that this action by the U.S. government facilitates our work at the international level.
But what was Lula's reaction? He was opposed to that designation, alleging a supposed violation of our sovereignty, as if our sovereignty served to protect those whom Lula called—quotation marks because the phrase is his—"our criminals."
Sérgio Moro: I say that this phrase by Lula, at bottom, revealed the true colors of this Government, which has always been lenient, and even in this action—now opposing the U.S. designation—it went further: it became complicit, became an accomplice in defending those criminal organizations which we can now call terrorists.
Sérgio Moro: As if that were not enough, yesterday we were all surprised by the news of a billion-dollar cut to the budget of our Armed Forces, which will have the practical effect of leaving the control and prevention they carry out at our borders undermanned.