BRASILIA: Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro to four years and two months in prison after finding him guilty of coercion and attempting to influence judicial proceedings through a lobbying campaign in the United States. The unanimous ruling also imposes an eight-year ban on holding public office, effectively removing the son of […]
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U.S. official barred from Brazil over Bolsonaro visit
WASHINGTON — A U.S. State Department official has been barred from traveling to Brazil after attempting to visit jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup, Brazilian authorities said Friday. Read More: Brazil, US begin urgent talks to ease tariff tensions Darren Beattie, who had been approved for a […]
Bolsonaro begins 27-year jail term for failed coup plot
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a failed coup to block Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after the 2022 elections. Bolsonaro, 70, exhausted all appeals before the court declared the judgment final. Read More: Former Brazil president Bolsonaro hospitalized with […]
Brazil president raises eyebrows saying Holocaust can be forgiven
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro drew veiled rebukes from Israel on Saturday after saying the Nazi genocide of the Jews during World War Two could be forgiven. The far-right Bolsonaro made a solidarity visit to Israel last month during which he raised eyebrows by asserting, after a tour of the Holocaust memorial Yad Vadshem, that the […]