An elected deputy asked that Jair Bolsonaro be extradited to Brazil and the United States clarified what could happen to the former president

The elected Brazilian deputy Erika Hilton today sent a letter addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieirain which he demands that the former president Jair Bolsonaro and the former Minister of Justice and former Secretary Anderson Torres be extradited from the United States. Torres was dismissed by Governor Ibaneis Rocha after the outbreak of Bolsonarist attacks against the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Planalto Palace.

Jair Bolsonarowho had left for the US in December, had to be admitted on Monday to a hospital in Orlando, Florida, due to severe abdominal pain, according to the newspaper O Balloon. His wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, He turned to the networks to clarify details of the hospitalization: “Dear friends, I come to inform you that my husband Jair Bolsonaro is under observation in the hospital, due to abdominal discomfort as a result of the aftermath of the stab wound that he inflicted in 2018 on a former member of the PSOL”.

For the elected federal deputy Erika Hilton, both must be extradited to give explanations to the Justice about the attempted coup by radical Bolsonarists in Brasilia. In the letter, she states that Anderson Torres would have acted “irresponsibly” and was omitted internationally “for not giving specific orders to the security forces to contain the group”.

“In the same way, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, as the political leader of the extremists who threaten the democratic order, although he currently resides in the United States, may be giving ordersissuing signals or strategic messages so that the crimes in progress in Brazil continue to be practiced”, he affirms.

“The possibility opens for Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro to be outside the country to avoid the ongoing processes and investigations promoted by the Brazilian Justice, demanding his extradition as a measure to guarantee public and democratic order,” he adds.

The elected federal deputy also alluded in her letter to the violent acts in front of the Federal Police headquarters and in the streets of Brasilia in December: “It is clear that the criminal acts occurred for eminently political reasons and with leadership, initially hidden, from an undemocratic disagreement in relation to the results of the polls and diplomacy itself.

Anderson Torres denied accusations that he had colluded with the attacks and said he did not go to the United States to meet Bolsonaro: “I am on vacation with my family. There was no plot to make this happen.”

On the other hand, the spokesman for the US Department of State, Ned Price, clarified that Bolsonaro cannot remain in the United States with the head of state visa that you used to enter the country, and if you do not apply to the U.S. government within 30 days to change the visa category, you will be in a irregular situation and you can even be deported to Brazil.

“Generally speaking, if someone enters the US on an A visa, which is essentially a diplomatic visa for foreign diplomats or heads of state, if the A visa holder is no longer involved in official business related to their districts, they are left at the discretion of the visa holder to leave the US or request a change to another type of immigration authorization within a period of 30 days,” he said. “If you have no reason to be in the United States, any person is subject to expulsion by the Department of Homeland Security.

Erika Hilton she is 27 years old, she is black and transsexual. She was the woman who received the most votes in the entire country and she entered the “top 10 ″ of the most voted councilors in the first round of the municipal elections on November 15. The first nine were men.

“I never imagined that in the largest city in Latin America (San Pablo) this black, poor, peripheral, transvestite body” could be “the most voted for in the country,” said Erika, of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), in an interview with the news agency AFP.

The entry of the first black transsexual to the municipal council of the economic capital of Brazil is a sign that “we are advancing against Bolsonarismo,” he adds, although noting that the fact is surrounded by “paradoxes.”

Grew up in a favelaher very religious family expelled her from home when she was a teenager, she became a prostitute and lived on the street for a few years.

When her mother finally decided to reestablish the relationship with her and support her, Erika began to study and be in the military for the defense of the rights of black and LGBT people.

In 2018, she was elected deputy for the state of São Paulo for a collective mandate, which brought together several women from the left, while an openly homophobic and racist candidate, former captain Jair Bolsonaro, became president of Brazil.

Erika tells that received many death threats but that the “panic of 2018” led her to look for how “Give a response to Bolsonarism at the polls.”

Two years later, 294 transvestite and transgender candidates launched their candidacies for the 2020 municipal elections and 30 were elected, 275% more than in the 2016 municipal elections, according to the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals (ANTRA).

The elected councilor maintains that the electoral results are a “slap in the face for this political system” and proof that “Brazil of 2018 is not Brazil of 2020.”

But he admits that it is a “slow” process, because there were 388 years of consensual slavery and almost 140 years of false abolition” decreed in 1888. “And we are still under construction, fighting for our humanity,” he said.

Despite being optimistic, he is still concerned about threats. Brazil is one of the countries with the most transgender murders in the world, with 124 cases registered in 2019.

(With information from AFP)

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