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Montevideo, April 3rd 2025 - 08:01 UTC

Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

  • Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 20:33 UTC

    Bolsonaro sides with convicted French far-right leader Marine LePen

    It is up to the French people to decide who will be the next president in 2027, Bolsonaro argued

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that France's far-right leader Marine LePen's conviction and five-year disenfranchisement for embezzling public funds was politically motivated after she led all surveys for the 2027 presidential elections.

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  • Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Bolsonaro's Brazil spied on Paraguay on joint Itaipú plant

    Paraguay's diplomacy is not based on media reports, Ramírez Lezcano highlighted

    Paraguay has launched investigations into an alleged cyberattack by Brazil targeting its government systems to obtain sensitive information about the Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric power plant, Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano confirmed. He said national intelligence and the Technologies and Information Ministry (MITIC) were probing the claims, though no evidence of a breach has been found yet.

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  • Friday, March 28th 2025 - 20:00 UTC

    Prosecution wants vax certificate case against Bolsonaro dropped

    There is not enough evidence that Bolsonaro ordered Cid to include false vaccination data in the Health Ministry's system, the prosecution argued

    Brazil's Attorney General Paulo Gonet requested the shelving of an investigation into former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged fraud in his Covid-19 vaccination records. The prosecution concluded there was insufficient evidence to prove Bolsonaro instructed his aide, Mauro Cid, to falsify vaccination data in the Health Ministry's system, despite the former aide-de-camp claims in a plea bargain. As per Brazilian law, corroborating evidence is needed beyond a collaborator’s testimony.

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  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 23:32 UTC

    Brazil's STF votes to proceed with coup charges against Bolsonaro and others

    “We had a very violent coup attempt,” De Moraes stressed

    The First Panel (Turma) of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of moving on the the charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants in connection with the Jan. 8, 2023, riots, which -the prosecution argues- constituted an attempted coup d'état following defeat in the 2022 elections.

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  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 05:20 UTC

    Brazil's STF reviews possible charges against Bolsonaro and others for Jan. 8 riots

    Bolsonaro's presence was not needed at this stage, so his appearance came as a bit of a surprise

    Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) rounded up Tuesday the first day of the proceedings to determine whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his closest allies will face criminal charges for attempting to overthrow President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Jan. 8, 2023, when crowds stormed into the headquarters of the three branches of Government in Brasilia causing havoc.

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  • Monday, March 24th 2025 - 08:07 UTC

    STF Justice Dino too votes against Bolsonarist Congresswoman Zambelli

    Seven more judges are to vote before Friday, with Zambelli already trailing 0-4

    Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Flávio Dino Sunday added a nail to Congresswoman Carla Zambelli's legal coffin by voting in favor of sentencing her to five years and three months in addition to losing her seat in Parliament for the illegal possession of a firearm and illegal restraint with the use of a firearm, Agência Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, March 20th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    Eduardo Bolsonaro to seek political asylum in the US

    Lula's allies claim it is a stunt ahead of the October 2026 presidential elections

    Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced he would be taking a leave from Parliament and remaining in the United States where he intends to seek political asylum at the suggestion of his legal team, who advised him against returning to the country as his freedom could be endangered by whatever Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes might decide. He traveled to the US on Feb. 27, 2025, initially for meetings and vacation.

  • Friday, February 21st 2025 - 12:00 UTC

    Brazil: Busy day for Justice De Moraes

    De Moraes issued rulings involving X, Rumble, and Bolsonaro

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice
    Alexandre De Moraes had a busy day Thursday, issuing key rulings concerning social platforms X and Rumble - both involving blogger Allan dos Santos' accounts - and former President Jair Bolsonaro.

  • Wednesday, February 19th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

    Brazil's PGR indicts Bolsonaro and 33 others for coup attempt

    Bolsonaro carried out a “conspiratorial plot armed and executed against democratic institutions,” the prosecution argued

    Former President Jair Bolsonaro was indicted Tuesday by Brazil's Attorney General's Office (PGR) alongside 33 other people before the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for the crimes of coup d'état, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, and criminal organization.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Bolsonaro ready to be jailed at any time

    Bolsonaro is somehow expecting the Federal Police to ring on his doorbell at 6 am

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told Bloomberg that he was mentally prepared to be incarcerated any time soon, and was somehow expecting Federal Police (PF) officers to pick him up. “I sleep well, but I'm already prepared to hear the doorbell ring at 6 am,” announcing it is the PF. Bolsonaro has already been indicted in the alleged coup plot, the alleged vaccination card fraud, and the Saudi jewels case. In another interview last week, Bolsonaro claimed that the charges did not matter.

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