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Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro tweeted this photo of himself in hospital in Florida on January 9, 2023.— Twitter/@jairbolsonaro ORLANDO: Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro tweeted a photo of himself from hospital in the United States on Monday, a day after his supporters drew international condemnation by invading the seat of…

Media caption, Watch: Thousands hold pro-democracy rallies in Brazil By Katy Watson in São Paulo & Jaroslav Lukiv in London BBC News Tens of thousands of people in Brazil have held pro-democracy rallies, in an angry response to the storming of Congress by ex-President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters. In the country's…

In August 2021, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s son traveled to Sioux Falls, S.D., to meet with some of the most prominent purveyors of former president Donald Trump’s false claims of mass election fraud. Eduardo Bolsonaro had a dire warning for the group, which included Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former top…

MIAMI — A day after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brazil, Vitor Spier, who lives in Orlando, Florida, condemned the violence in his home country. But Spier, a Bolsonaro supporter who believes Brazil’s recent election was fraudulent, said he was “expecting” some response from the…

Chaos at the National Congress on Sunday. Photo: Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images Brazilian authorities on Monday detained more than 1,200 people, dismantled a protest camp in the capital and cleared roadblocks set up by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro as they moved to restore order a day after…

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Brazilians who support former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the Supreme Court, presidential palace and Congress on Jan. 8 in an episode that closely resembled the U.S. Capitol insurrection in 2021. The groups were able to break through police barricades along the capital Brasilia’s main…

President Joe Biden extended U.S. support to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil in a phone call a day after supporters of the country's former far-right leader stormed government buildings in the country's capital. During the call, Biden affirmed Lula's recent electoral victory as president and voiced "unwavering…

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Much like Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right former president of Brazil, has coped with his election loss by escaping to Florida, where he has been seen wearing a USA soccer jersey, walking around a Publix, and gnawing into some KFC. His Florida vacation reportedly took a turn Monday when…

Two years and two days after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in protest of the 2020 presidential election results, arch-supporters of the ousted Brazilian leader Jair “Trump of the Tropics” Bolsonaro staged an insurrection of their own. Draped in the colors of the Brazilian flag,…