Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years jail for coup attempt
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro in 2021 announced The three possible ways in the future put forward for him: prison, death or victory. At this point, he had already escaped death and survived 2018 knife attack During a campaign event in the first run for the presidency.
Victory was going to get over him. Following Bolsonaro’s 2022 re -election campaign, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, also known as Lula, also managed to replace the extreme right -wing former military officer less than the margin of a percentage score. It meant that Bolsonaro had First chairman Since Brazil has returned to democracy in order not to be re -elected in 1985.
Now, 70 -year -old Bolsonaro will spend most of his future in prison. Overnight, the Supreme Court Voted 4-1 to condemn a panel of Justice for his control of a failed coup after the 2022 elections, and accused him of trying to stick to power and plan to assassinate his opponent.
The sentence was harsh: 27 years and three months imprisonment. Again New York Times When stated, it is possible that his lawyers will request Bolsonaro to remain under house arrest due to health problems.
Yesterday, as a part of our new research series Big Tech’s invisible hand, we published an article from our Brazilian reporting partner. Agência pública This held a meeting with Facebook executives in Brasília. At this meeting, Bolsonaro said that he commented with his tears in his eyes: im If I am arrested, I will not take two days. ”
One of the common writers of this article, Agência pública Executive Director Natália Viana, Crirase This public has shook against Bolsonaro, and it turned out that the major media organizations of Brazil turned against him.
“There are a few things in the game. First, the case against him is intact.
Bolsonaro, an old parachutist glorified 1964-85 military dictatorship of the country in the ruling time. Bolsonaro’s discourse in a country where at least 15 successful or coups took place since 1889 Many Brazilians have made them uneasy.
As the election campaign progressed, Bolsonaro and his allies launched a more systematic campaign to weaken the country’s democracy. Like Times “It was based on evidence that he and his inner environment spent by weakening the confidence of voters’ confidence in Brazilian election systems for months”.
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Following the loss, a plan was made to declare an emergency situation, terminate the high court, cancel the election result and give comprehensive forces to the army. Perhaps the most shocking plot contained a plan to assassinate Lula. Accordingly Guardian– “Only Bolsonaro was abandoned from the three -armed forces chief and the navy commander because he managed to win only one of the navy commander, and the presidents of the Air Force and Army refused to participate”.
The next part of the anti-democratic attack was played very publicly. On January 8, 2023, hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters, a malicious history in Latin America’s largest country, damaged political institutions in Brasília, the Supreme Court, Congress and the Presidential Palace.
US President Donald Trump strongly criticized the prosecution of his ally. (Trump was accused of encouraging the uprising due to their attempts to overthrow the US elections, and he was a source of inspiration that his supporters were invaded to the US Congress in 2021. Bolsonaristas. Associated Press The process was reacted against Bolsonaro reported.
After Bolsonaro’s conviction, Trump told journalists that he was “very unhappy about it”.
“I think this is a terrible thing, very terrible. In fact, I think it’s too bad for Brazil,” he said.
Viana said Trump’s interventions on Bolsonaro on its rivals in Brazil.
“Trump’s pressure made us more willing to condemn him,” he said.
