Ex-Brazilian president convicted over attempted coup
The four justice also decided to condemn seven allies of Bolsonaro, including five military officers.
Between 1964 and 1985, the conviction of a former army captain Bolsonaro, a former army captain who never hid his admiration for hundreds of Brazilians who killed hundreds of Brazilians, reflects the legal condemnation for far -right leaders, including the Marine Le Pen and the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte this year.
US President Donald Trump said he was surprised that Bolsonaro was convicted.
“Well, I watched this hearing. I knew him quite well. I thought he was a good president of Brazil. And it was surprising that this could happen. As they tried to do with me, but they couldn’t escape, Tr Trump said to a door on Friday. “But I can always say that. I knew him as the President of Brazil. He was a good man.”
Trump previously called the case against Bolsonaro as “witch hunt ve and hit Brazil with a 50 percent tariff, sanctions against the president and the cancellation of the visa of most of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
Carlos Fico, a historian who trained Brazil’s army in Rio de Janeiro, said that the historical importance of the case went well beyond Bolsonaro and his movement.
The decision points out that for the first time since Brazil became a republic almost 140 years ago, military officials have been punished for trying to overthrow democracy.
The decision was not unanimously, Justice Luiz Fux was broken on Wednesday with the peers of all the charges.
The justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil is gathered in Brasilia for the decision of a hearing and the penalty phase for those accused in a coup plan allegedly to keep Bolsonaro after the 2022 election defeat.Credit: AP
This single vote may lead to the challenges of the decision, and the potentially consequence of the hearing may bring the results of the 2026 presidential elections, which Bolsonaro runs over again, despite running for the office.
Fux’s vote fired a justified relief among the supporters of the former president.
Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of the former president, said, “When a sense of justice prevails on consistency and revenge and lies, there is no room for brutal persecution or prejudiced judgments,” says Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of the former president, was released after Fux.
“The trial is a call for a wake up for the armed forces,” Fico said. “Given that there is no punishment before, they need to realize that something has changed, and now exists.”
A seller exhibits double flag jerseys containing the Brazil and the US flag, except for the condominium of Bolsonaro.Credit: AP
Bolsonaro’s conviction points to Nadir, one of the back benches of the Congress to form a powerful conservative coalition that tested the boundaries of the country’s young democratic institutions.
In the 1980s, his political journey began as an army parachutist after a brief career as a city legislator. He continued to be elected as a congress in Brasilia, where he was rapidly recognized by his defense of authoritarian policies.
As a firefighter, his reputation was fed with negotiations that Brazil claimed that he would change only the day we exploded in the civil war and that the military regime did not do: the day we killed 30,000 ”.
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For a long time, a fringe has been rejected as a player, refining his message to fight against corruption and play pro -family themes. In 2014, in 2014, the prisoner Luiz Inacio Lula, who was later canceled, found an efficient ground when mass protests erupted in Brazil among the bribery scandal, which influenced hundreds of politicians, including hundreds of politicians, including Silva.
Anti -anger against the burning organization helped to pave the way for the successful presidential work of 2018, and dozens of far -right and conservative politicians were chosen in Coattauils. They made the congress a permanent obstacle against Lula’s progressive agenda.
The presidency of Bolsonaro was marked with the embrace of non -formal mining and soil cleaning for intense skepticism and cattle grazing about Pandemik and Vaccines, and pushed the high -forests in the Amazon rainforest to record the high forests.
In 2022, while encountering a close election campaign against Lula, an election-Bolsonaro’s comments that Lula continued to win received an increasing quality by increasing concerns about the desire to accept the results.
Im I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killing or victory, ”he said in 2021 to a meeting of Evangelical leaders.
In 2023, the Brazil’s election court, which controls the elections, banned him from public office by 2030, as he made unfounded claims about Brazil’s electronic voting system.
Bolsonaro’s conviction and durability will emerge as a powerful test for the strategy that Brazil adopts to protect the country’s democracy against what they define as dangerous attacks from the far right.
Their objectives included social media publications, which they said to be politicians and activists, as well as disinformation about the selection system. It is the peak of a former president and his allies to prison to plan a coup.
The cases were largely ruled by the command figure of Alexandre de Alexandre de Alexandre de Alexandre de Alexandre, who was largely celebrated by the left by the left by the left in 2017 and condemned as a political persecution.
“They want to get me out of the political game next year, Bol Bolsonaro said in June to Reuters’ 2026 elections that Lula could call the fourth term. “Without me in the race, Lula can beat everyone.”
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