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President Donald Trump is not happy with Brazil. Trump signed an executive order last week that places a total tariff burden of 50 percent on the country’s exports to the U.S. (with some exceptions), affecting billions of dollars of Brazilian goods. The tariff is a response to what Trump views…

The Take Brazil’s former president is under house arrest after the country’s Supreme Court found Jair Bolsonaro had violated social media and political messaging rules. Now on trial for an alleged coup attempt, United States President Donald Trump has called Bolsonaro’s prosecution a “witch hunt” and hit Brazil with 50…

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The US has intensified its campaign to help Jair Bolsonaro avoid punishment for allegedly masterminding a failed coup, with the state department denouncing the decision to place Brazil’s former president under house arrest. “Let Bolsonaro speak!” the department’s bureau of western hemisphere affairs tweeted on Monday night after the far-right…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the house arrest for former President Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for allegedly masterminding a coup plot to remain in office despite his defeat in the 2022 election — a case that has gripped the South American country as it faces…

RIO DE JANEIRO — Every day, the vise around former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tightens. First, his passport was revoked. Then came the criminal charges that he’d led a plot to assassinate his rivals and retain power through military force following his 2022 electoral loss. And finally, he was ordered…

President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro listen to reporter's questions during joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the Washington, D.C.m on March 19, 2019. On Monday, Brazil's Supreme Court order Bolsonaro's house arrest. File Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/UPI | License Photo Aug. 5 (UPI) --…

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for allegedly masterminding a coup plot to remain in office despite his defeat in the 2022 election — a case that has gripped the South American country as it faces a…

Troubled former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been placed under house arrest for his role in the country's attempted coup. This comes after he broke a social media ban, escalating a dramatic standoff between the court and the far-right politician accused of plotting a coup. The beleaguered politician has said…

Justice Alexandre de Moraes said that Bolsonaro had not complied with the judicial restraining orders imposed on him in July. The Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered that former President Jair Bolsonaro be placed on house arrest. This comes as the former leader is set to stand trial after being…