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Former president Jair Bolsonaro is accused of plotting the assassination of political rivals and a military takeover of Latin America’s largest country...Read More

Bolsonaro is among the 34 people facing charges, including attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law. Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro was charged in connection to an alleged  coup plot to overturn the 2022 election result, which he narrowly lost to far-left candidate Lalo da Silva. Bolsonaro was…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a…

World Brazil's prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. Authorities…

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil’s federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the progress of his agency and the challenges it faces in protecting the country’s biomes after four years of regression under former president Jair Bolsonaro. Agostinho revealed plans to strengthen the agency and…

The passport of Jair Bolsonaro, a former far-right president, had been confiscated as part of ongoing investigations. As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches in the United States, one world leader is unlikely to be in attendance: Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. On Thursday, Brazil’s Supreme Court denied a petition from the former…

SAO PAULO —  Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request by former President Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily restore his passport so that he could attend the inauguration in Washington of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump next week. Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who Bolsonaro frequently has called his personal foe, said…

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Brazilian general and former defence minister Walter Braga Netto (L), seen with far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested over an alleged coup plot, according to a police source - Copyright AFP Fayez Nureldine Ramon SAHMKOW Brazilian authorities on Saturday arrested General Walter Braga Netto, a former defense minister and…