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Bolsonaro’s foes painted the US transfer as a humiliating snub and proof that his subservience to Trump was misguided.

“Brazil: a well being threat to the world due to Jair Bolsonaro,” tweeted Valmir Assunção, a congressman from the leftwing Employees celebration. “Even the US – whose president’s boots he licks – has banned the entry of Brazilians.”

Alice Portugal, a Communist celebration lawmaker, tweeted: “Is Bolsonaro going to maintain marching round with the American flag now?”

Bolsonarista officers scrambled to place a optimistic spin on the ban. “Ignore press hysteria,” tweeted Filipe Martins, a overseas coverage adviser to Bolsonaro, pointing to earlier US restrictions on travellers from China, Iran, the UK and the European Union in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

Brazil’s overseas minister, Ernesto Araújo, retweeted a message from the nationwide safety council that stated: “Brazil is one in all our strongest companions on the earth.”

Brian Winter, the New York-based editor of Americas Quarterly, stated he believed that due to the nice and cozy ties between the US and Brazil “the Trump administration waited so long as it attainable may to take this measure”.

However the US message now to Brazil is “even this friendship can not defend you from being banned if you’re passing the 20,000 deaths mark and you’ll’t get your curve below management”, Winter added.

“There was no political eagerness to do that in Washington. They knew it was going to be embarrassing for Bolsonaro and Brazil and so they tried to carry off.”

Winter continued: “It’s a horrible irony that the US has banned journey from the nation that the majority carefully imitated its strategy to Covid-19.

“Folks attempt to make this about diplomacy however in the end it’s only a very, very unhappy indictment of the Covid insurance policies actually in each nations – as a result of Bolsonaro has clearly been imitating each the actions and the rhetoric of the Untied States.”

Throughout a current interview with the Guardian, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described Bolsonaro as Trump’s “lambe-botas” (boot-licker).

“I can’t bear in mind a single president within the historical past of the Brazilian republic since 1889 who has been so discredited and disrespected on the earth as Bolsonaro,” he stated. “At the moment not even Trump takes Bolsonaro severe.”

In an open letter revealed earlier this month, six former Brazilian former ministers denounced Bolsonaro’s “shameful” subservience and claimed his response to the pandemic had made Brazil’s authorities “an object of worldwide derision and disgust”.