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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.…

Brazilian security forces wrested back control of Congress, the presidential palace and the supreme court on Sunday after a flood of former president Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the seat of power, unleashing chaos on the capital Brasilia.  In scenes reminiscent of the 6 January 2021 invasion of the US Capitol…

Security forces confront supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro who invaded Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. — AFPBRASíLIA: Brazilian security forces locked down the area around Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Monday, a day after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the…

B razil’s president has vowed to punish the supporters of ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro who stormed Congress and Brazil’s supreme court building. In scenes echoing the January 6 insurrection in Washington DC by Donald Trump supporters in 2021, far-right rioters also surrounded the presidential palace and sought military intervention to restore…