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Montevideo, March 7th 2025 - 02:51 UTC

Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

  • Wednesday, February 21st 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    Lula's impeachment requested over Israeli crisis

    Zambelli's petition argues that Lula “committed hostility against a foreign nation”, “compromised the neutrality” of the country, and exposed Brazil to a “danger of war”

    Spearheaded by Congresswoman Carla Zambelli of former President Jair Bolsonaro's Liberal Party (PL), over 100 lawmakers have endorsed a document requesting the impeachment of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva because his remarks likening Israel to Nazi Germany compromised Brazil's stance internationally exposing the country to a “danger of war.”

  • Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:39 UTC

    Police find fraud evidence against Jair Bolsonaro Jr

    It is now up to the Public Prosecutor's Office to decide whether to file charges against the former President's youngest son

    Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the youngest son of former Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro, is suspected together with a friend (and shooting instructor, Maciel Alves) of fraudulent misrepresentation, use of false documents, and money laundering in connection with an application for a bank loan, the Federal District Civil Police (PCDF) said in a statement Thursday. No further details were released, given the case's seal of secrecy.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Evidence about Bolsonaro's alleged coup plotting meetings mount

    As things get more complicated on the judiciary front, Bolsonaro plans a street demonstration

    Brazil's Federal Police (PF) said Wednesday that it had managed to corroborate Lt Col Mauro Cid's allegations about former President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged coup meetings during which would have discussed a plan with the military brass ahead of the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising in Brasilia. These encounters reportedly took place at the Alvorada Palace while Bolsonaro was still in office and at a house in Lago Sul, Brasília, which functioned as campaign headquarters for the 2022 elections.

  • Friday, February 9th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Bolsonaro's Party Chairman arrested

    The former President was ordered to surrender his passport

    Brazilian Liberal Party (PL) Chairman Valdemar Costa Neto was arrested Thursday and former President Jair Bolsonaro was ordered to surrender his passport as the investigation into the Jan. 8, 2023, coup attempt moved forward.

  • Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    “Madman” Bolsonaro “should have never become President”, says Lula

    Lula's words might have been triggered by last Saturday's comments by Bolsonaro to a Portuguese YouTube channel

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro that “an ignorant guy like” Jair Bolsonaro should have never reached the Planalto Palace. During a speech on Tuesday in Belford Roxo, Lula also called his predecessor a fool and a bastard, among other epithets.

  • Wednesday, January 31st 2024 - 10:38 UTC

    Lula sacks deputy intelligence chief for hindering parallel Abin probe

    Moretti will be replaced by Marco Aurélio Chaves Cepik, a university professor and the current director of Abin's Intelligence School

    President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sacked Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) Deputy Director Alessandro Moretti for allegedly hindering the ongoing probe into the Bolsonaro family's use of said services for personal gain, Agencia Brasil reported. Lula's decision was published Tuesday in an extra issue of the Official Gazette (Diário Oficial da União - DOU).

  • Saturday, January 20th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Bolsonaro's Covid-19 vax card proven to be fake

    Bolsonaro has always claimed never to have taken a Covid-19 vaccine

    Brazilian authorities have determined that former President Jair Bolsonaro produced false certificates attesting to his vaccination against Covid-19 to enter the United States, it was reported this week.

  • Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 11:45 UTC

    Lula wants exemplary punishments for those involved in Jan. 8 riots

    Monday was a day to “celebrate the victory of democracy over authoritarianism,” Lula said

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Monday that pardoning the coup plotters who staged the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising against the headquarters of all three branches of government in Brasilia would sound like impunity, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, January 8th 2024 - 12:18 UTC

    Lula insists Bolsonaro masterminded the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising

    Bolsonaro left the country and “let his principals carry out what he did,” Lula argued

    One day before the first anniversary of the Jan. 8, 2023, riots in Brasilia, when the headquarters of all three branches of government were stormed by anti-government groups, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday insisted his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro was behind it all.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:21 UTC

    Brasilia rioters wanted to kill De Moraes, judge says

    De Moraes was to be assassinated in the most barbaric ways possible

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the Jan. 8 rioters who seized the buildings of all three branches of government, wanted to hang him in the process. Those financing the uprising planned to convince the army to join a coup after the invasion of Congress, case rapporteur De Moraes explained in an interview with O Globo.