Martin De Luca

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Martin De Luca

Martin De Luca

@emd_worldwide

I defend lives, freedom, and dignity when justice breaks down across borders, regimes, and headlines

Ingressou em julho de 2026
I warned yesterday that the decisive test for Brazil would come AFTER the election. Would Brazil return to normal democratic competition or follow Venezuela’s path after December 2015? That test applies regardless of who ultimately wins or loses the contested election. Last nig…
Moments ago, @FlavioBolsonaro went to visit his father who remains under house arrest. When Flavio exited @jairbolsonaro’s home, several police officers were waiting for Flavio. According to Flavio, they served him with an order to surrender all his passports and informed him he…
The international community should see these images and hear @brunoreisba, Salvador’s mayor, account. Reis has published security camera footage that shows people placing @LulaOficial’s Workers’ Party (PT) stickers on public buses inside a Salvador garage before dawn on election…
Stephen Hubbard is doing well and recovering with his family. Some reports about his time in detention are circulating based on false third-party accounts that have not been verified with Stephen or his legal team. Stephen’s story is his to tell when he is ready. Until then, pl…
Before we could fight for Stephen Hubbard’s freedom, we had to find him. On @FaceTheNation, I explained the legal work and sustained diplomatic engagement that helped bring him home — and why the Trump administration’s insistence on keeping his case a top priority made the diffe…
Every appearance of judicial intimidation strengthens the argument for judicial accountability. It gives Brazilian voters another reason to demand change and an incoming president another reason to resist pressure. If elected, Flávio should govern without fear or favor. The mand…
The fear of losing power is humanly understandable for Alexandre de Moraes. Using judicial power to protect yourself from accountability is indefensible.
Brazil votes on Sunday. A newly manufactured criminal investigation involving presidential candidate @FlavioBolsonaro is now in the hands of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. @CNNBrasil reports widespread fears that Moraes could act before the vote or keep the case as a…
History tells us that the road to peace is long and difficult, but its human dividends need not wait for a final agreement. Stephen Hubbard’s freedom is a dividend earned along the hard road to peace. Two Americans have now come home from Russia on humanitarian grounds in ten we…
Today Stephen Hubbard is coming home. After more than four years in Russian custody, our client Stephen has been released. Ten weeks after Robert Gilman’s release from Russia, another American family’s long wait is ending. The road to peace is difficult, but its human dividend…
What purpose does threatening @FlavioBolsonaro with criminal prosecution five days before the vote serve? To defeat him at the ballot box or to make sure that, even if he wins, he governs under threat? That is the logic of lawfare. Turn legal jeopardy into political control. The…
Quem escolhe o presidente da República são os eleitores e não os ministros do STF. Assim funciona a democracia que o Alexandre de Moraes finge proteger.
Here is @LulaOficial addressing his presidential opponent @FlavioBolsonaro during last night’s debate, translated into English: “Get ready, because on the 25th you will lose immunity and you will have problems. Because there are many investigations into your life that will now m…
New municipal analysis in the Brazilian elections identifies a structural weakness in @LulaOficial’s recovery strategy. In municipalities where Bolsa Família beneficiaries exceed half the population, Lula’s vote share declined from 71.5% in 2022 to 68.7%, while the Bolsonaro shar…
First they cancelled X. Then they cancelled Rumble. They cancelled @BolsonaroSP. Then they cancelled @jairbolsonaro. Recently they even cancelled Polymarket. They cancelled, censured, jailed and exiled just about any meaningful threat to their political power that they could find…
Do you think that if @FlavioBolsonaro is elected president, the Brazilian government will continue to tell the American court hearing the Rumble case that Alexandre de Moraes was acting lawfully by targeting American platforms with no presence in Brazil and users on U.S. soil…?
The Government of Brazil (AGU) cannot have it both ways when trying to defend Alexandre de Moraes. When addressing the U.S. Department of Justice, the Government of Brazil said its court orders “operate strictly within” Brazil, have no extraterritorial effect, and must be served…
37 years ago, in his final speech as President, Ronald Reagan said something profound about what it means to be an American. America is not a bloodline. It is not a tribe. It is not reserved for those whose families came first. America is an idea and a promise. Anyone, from an…
Do you think Alexandre de Moraes suddenly decided to investigate Rio de Janeiro Governor @claudiocastroRJ, right after he led Brazil’s biggest operation against Comando Vermelho, by coincidence? Or could it be because Castro’s popularity exploded overnight for doing what million…
If Comando Vermelho were already designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under U.S. law, as Argentina and Paraguay have designated it this week, the debate in Brazil today would look very different. Instead of investigating the governor and police officers who risked t…
It sounds unbelievable, but it’s true. Alexandre de Moraes is now investigating the Bolsonaro-aligned governor of Rio de Janeiro @claudiocastroRJ and the police officers who led Brazil’s largest operation against the Comando Vermelho — the same criminal faction the U.S. is consid…
What’s happening in Rio was inevitable. The federal government has been paralyzed or unwilling to confront the PCC and Comando Vermelho. In May, the U.S. offered Brazil a partnership to classify these groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). That status unlocks the full…
64 dead in Rio De Janeiro and the Brazilian federal government blames the cops. Today’s state law enforcement operation in Rio — involving 2,500 officers — targeted Comando Vermelho, one of Latin America’s most violent organized crime groups. The criminals fought back with mi…
The @WSJ reports that Brazil’s Alexandre de Moraes used a fake U.S. Customs and Border Protection record to justify the imprisonment of a political opponent, @jairbolsonaro aide Filipe Martins, in order to pressure him to cooperate against Bolsonaro. CBP has finally been able t…
Do you all remember when @jorgemessiasagu and @Alexandre were saying back in February and March that the AGU would be showing up in US federal court to defend the Rumble case? How about when the AGU said on June 6 that it had hired a U.S. law firm to defend him? Ring a bell?…
The opinion issued by Brazil’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGR) to the Superior Tribunal de Justiça (@STJnoticias is deeply disappointing and legally unsound. @rumblevideo’s U.S. lawsuit does not seek to “punish” Alexandre de Moraes for his lawful judicial acts in Brazil. It se…
Brazilian Authorities Are Blocking Service of Process for Alexandre de Moraes A routine judicial formality — serving U.S. court papers under the Hague Convention — is being treated by Brazilian authorities as a mortal danger. The U.S. federal court asked Brazil’s judiciary bac…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has confirmed that Filipe Martins never entered the United States on Dec 30, 2022 — the very “fact” that Justice Alexandre de Moraes used to justify his imprisonment in Brazil. That means a false U.S. government record was fabricated or m…
After months of stalling, the Brazilian court responsible for approving service to Alexandre de Moraes in the Rumble case (@STJnoticias) has now referred Rumble’s request to serve Moraes with the U.S. lawsuit in Florida to the Brazilian Attorney General’s Office (PGR) under seal…
According to @CNNBrasil 42-43k people showed up to protest the amnesty bill in São Paulo….. 19 top singers and only 42k showed up. To a free music concert pretending to be a “protest.” Sounds like the Brazilian Congress can comfortably proceed to pass the amnesty bill into law.
Tomorrow @LulaOficial Workers’ Party (PT) is staging rallies against an amnesty law that could free @jairbolsonaro. To outsiders, the posters look like popular Brazilian figures like Caetano Veloso, Daniela Mercury, Djavan, Maria Gadú are genuinely opposed to the amnesty law. And…
So many people are saying that the brains behind Alexandre de Moraes is @gilmarmendes and that he should be the focus of the U.S. response. At this juncture, the most important step forward is the amnesty bill being passed by the Brazilian Congress regardless of what Machiavell…
The Speaker of the Brazilian House of Representatives last night approved moving forward urgently with the draft bill for amnesty that could see @jairbolsonaro have his conviction extinguished and be eligible to run president in next year’s presidential election. This is a move…
Hoje falei com o funcionário de uma empresa brasileira que eu nunca havia conhecido antes. Ele disse algo que me marcou profundamente, “Doutor, falo por mim e pelos meus colegas quando digo que estamos todos torcendo pelo senhor. Somos gratos pelo que o senhor está fazendo. Por f…
Papuda is not just a prison. It’s Brazil’s largest maximum-security facility, built for a few hundred men, now cramming in nearly 12,000 inmates. Overcrowded, violent, infamous for poor conditions — it is the symbol of harsh punishment in Brazilian political life. Now reports s…
Alexandre de Moraes and his allies are hinting that they will link @jairbolsonaro’s prison conditions to U.S. foreign policy decisions. According to Brazilian press reports, Moraes had considered letting him serve his 27-year sentence under house arrest. After U.S. officials war…
Democracy means listening. Not silencing. The Brazilian Congress, the voice of Brazilians, has the votes to impeach Alexandre de Moraes and to pass an amnesty for @jairbolsonaro. That is how a republic is meant to work. But Moraes, when convicting Bolsonaro, said that even if C…