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WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would respond, without specifying how, after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election. "The political persecutions by sanctioned human rights abuser Alexandre de…

President Donald Trump’s rebukes of judges and courtroom prosecutors have extended far beyond the United States’ borders in his second term in office, as he and his officials question the fairness of an increasing number of foreign nations’ domestic court systems — including those of long-standing allies — whose rulings…

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The verdict is in for Jair Bolsonaro. A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced the former president to 27 years and 3 months in prison on Thursday, after he was found guilty of plotting a coup in 2022.   Bolsonaro is the first former Brazilian president to be convicted of…

Getty Images-Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is pictured during a previous appearance at the Supreme Federal Court in Brasília, Brazil, in June. Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election with a plot prosecutors say included plans to assassinate the president-elect…

LATEST  |  Brazil’s supreme court convicts ex-president over bid to keep power Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been under house arrest since being accused of plotting a coup (AP Photo/Luis Nova) Mauricio Savarese and Gabriela Sá Pessoa Reuters Fri 12 Sep 2025 at 08:00 A panel of Brazilian Supreme…

In 2021, Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro declared the three possible future paths he saw laid out for him: prison, death or victory. At that point, he had already evaded death, surviving a 2018 knife attack during a campaign event in his first run for president.  Victory would elude him as…

Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of failed coup plotters to be held to account for their attempted power grab. Brazil’s Supreme Court found Bolsonaro guilty of being part of an armed criminal organization and other counts relating to a…

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat. Bolsonaro, who has always denied any wrongdoing, can appeal the ruling. He is…

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro looks on during a ceremony. —Reuters/File Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for plotting to overthrow the government, in a landmark verdict that has left the country deeply split and drawn sharp criticism from Washington. The 70-year-old…