2026年7月25日 美国东部时间晚上10:48 / 美联社
巴西外交部周六表示，已拒绝两名美国国务院官员的签证申请，这两人原计划于下周前往这个南美国家，这是两国之间最新的政治交锋。
这一消息在《华盛顿邮报》报道巴西政府称涉事官员——助理国务卿赖利·M·巴恩斯和副助理国务卿塞缪尔·萨姆森——试图质疑巴西即将到来的10月大选后公开。
巴西外交部的一名发言人表示，巴恩斯和萨姆森于7月20日提交签证申请，签证于周五被拒。他未透露该决定背后的原因。
巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦将寻求连任，对手是参议员弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗，后者家族与特朗普政府关系密切。
博尔索纳罗参议员及其胞弟爱德华多于5月底访问了华盛顿的美国官员，其中包括特朗普总统。不久之后，特朗普政府将巴西最大的贩毒集团——第一指挥资本集团和红色指挥集团——列为外国恐怖组织，这一举措遭到卢拉的反对。
特朗普政府还对数千种巴西出口商品加征最高37.5%的关税，该措施于周五正式生效。美国政府称这个南美国家存在不公平竞争行为，且未能制止强迫劳动——卢拉政府驳斥了这两项指控，称其意在通过选举打压博尔索纳罗参议员。
美国国务院表示，巴恩斯和萨姆森原计划于7月27日至30日前往巴西利亚，与政府官员、宗教领袖及其他人士就“选举诚信”、宗教自由和言论自由进行会晤。国务院在回应美联社的问询时称，这是一次例行访问，并表示“任何暗示此行是‘破坏民主国家选举的阴谋’的说法都是毫无根据的谎言”。
巴西前总统雅伊尔·博尔索纳罗多年来一直质疑该国的电子投票系统，但未提供任何证据支持其说法。他目前因未遂政变在家中服刑27年。他长期坚称，已使用了25年的电子投票机容易出现舞弊。
他的儿子、博尔索纳罗参议员近期也重复了部分此类言论，不过周六在圣保罗的自由党确认他为总统候选人时，他并未提及相关话题。
Brazil denies visa requests to U.S. officials ahead of upcoming elections
July 25, 2026 10:48 PM EDT / AP
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it denied visas to two U.S. State Department officials who sought to travel to the South American nation next week, in the latest political barb between the two countries.
The move became public after The Washington Post reported the Brazilian government saying the officials, Riley M. Barnes, an assistant secretary, and Samuel Samson, a deputy assistant, wanted to cast doubt on the upcoming October elections in Brazil.
A spokesperson for Brazil’s foreign office said Barnes and Samson requested visas on July 20 and they were denied Friday. He did not disclose the reasons behind the decision.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will bid for reelection against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, whose family has many ties with the Trump administration.
Sen. Bolsonaro and his brother, Eduardo, visited U.S. officials in Washington, including President Trump, in late May. Shortly afterward, the Trump administration classified Brazil’s biggest drug-trafficking groups — First Command Capital and Red Command — as foreign terrorist organizations, a move Lula opposes.
The Trump administration also imposed an up to 37.5% tariff hike on thousands of Brazilian exports, which came into force Friday. The U.S. government claims the South American nation has unfair competition practices and fails to stop forced labor practices — both accusations rejected by the Lula administration as an attempt to sway the election to Sen. Bolsonaro.
The U.S. State Department said Barnes and Samson planned to go to Brasilia July 27-30 to meet government officials, religious leaders and others about “election integrity,” religious freedom and freedom of expression. The department, in response to a query from The Associated Press, called it a routine visit and said that “any insinuation of a ‘ploy’ to undermine a democratic nation’s election is a baseless lie.”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has for years fed concerns about the country’s electronic voting system, without providing any evidence for his claims. He is now serving a 27-year prison sentence at home for an attempted coup. He has long insisted that the machines, used for a quarter-century, are prone to fraud.
His son, Sen. Bolsonaro, has recently repeated some of these claims, although he steered clear of those on Saturday when his Liberal Party confirmed him as a presidential candidate in Sao Paulo.