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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,…

RIO DE JANEIRO - Far-right former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Florida on Monday with stomach pains, as more than 1,500 of his supporters were rounded up in Brasilia after storming the capital over the weekend. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist who…

Brazilian soldiers backed by police dismantled a camp of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday, a day after rioters launched the worst attack on Brazil's state institutions since its return to democracy in the 1980s. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva joined leaders of both houses of Congress and…

Asked whether Bolsanaro entered the U.S. on an A-1 visa — meant for foreign diplomats or heads of state — State Department spokesman Ned Price declined to comment on Bolsonaro’s status specifically but said that type of visa lapses if the individual using it has a change in position. The…

BRASILIA, Brazil - Jan. 08, 2023: Damage caused at the Supreme Court by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images Brazil's currency weakened on Monday after supporters of right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings on Sunday in protest against his election loss.…