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  • Biden, Lula find common ground in strength of their democracies

    02/10/2023 5:28:56 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    The hill ^ | 02/10/2023 | Alex Gangitano
    President Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva marked the survival of their democracies in a bilateral White House meeting Friday, a common ground that led to the leaders to taking jabs at their predecessors. “Both of our democracies have been tested of late,” Biden said, referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the riots that broke out in Brazil last month.
  • Brazil prosecutor charges Bolsonaro for attempted coup, plot to poison Lula

    02/20/2025 11:26:32 AM PST · by ifinnegan · 26 replies
    AP/France24 ^ | 2/19/25 | News Wires
    Brazil’s prosecutor-general has charged former president Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in power after his 2022 election defeat, alleging that he knew and approved of a plot to poison his successor, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Brazil's prosecutor-general Paulo Gonet on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that also included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in a plan to remain...
  • Brazil police raid ex-President Bolsonaro’s home, fit ankle tag, citing flight risk concern amid criminal trial

    07/18/2025 12:40:49 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 29 replies
    CNN ^ | Fri July 18, 2025 | Stefano Pozzebon, Kara Fox and Ana Melgar
    Police in Brazil swooped on the home and political headquarters of Jair Bolsonaro early Friday, searching the properties, ordering the former president to wear an electronic ankle tag, barring him from speaking to foreign officials or approaching embassies and prohibiting him from using social media. The restrictions, ordered by Brazil’s Supreme Court, were motivated by concerns that Bolsonaro would flee the country, amid his trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election to remain in power. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing. Federal police also accused Bolsonaro and his son, Eduardo, of conspiring with the US...
  • ‘Putsch Into Nowhere’: Russian Officials Slam Brazil Riots, Back Lula

    01/16/2023 1:16:03 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 25 replies
    msn ^ | Jan 9 | The Moscow Times •
    Russian officials offered support for Lula, who now presides over the country that like Russia is a member of the club of BRICS emerging economies: — Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the upper-house Federation Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee: “I was in Brazil when Lula was inaugurated and saw everything with my own eyes: there were no signs of disturbances at all. What happened now is difficult to explain and, from my point of view, non-systemic.”
  • “Brazil is Going Full Gulag. This is the Worst Communist Takeover Ever”

    01/14/2023 8:45:09 AM PST · by Tench_Coxe · 26 replies
    The US has begun deporting Brazilian opposition leaders to the Gulags as evidence mounts the Jan. 8 riots were staged. US journalist Glenn Greenwald complained about the Communist takeover he helped enable: Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes is “making himself chief censor of the world,” Greenwald said. Speaking to Steve Bannon, Brazil obesrver Matt Tyrmand said: “They are going full Gulag. This is the worst Communist takeover ever.”
  • Brazil: Supreme Court Imprisons January 8 Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters for 17 Years

    09/15/2023 9:59:44 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/15/2023 | Francis Martel
    The highest court in Brazil, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), sentenced two of the first defendants implicated in the January 8 Brasilia riot to 17 years in prison on Thursday on a variety of charges including “attempted coup d’etat” and “attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law.” Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, was identified as part of a crowd of thousands of supporters of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the Brazilian Congress, STF headquarters, and office of the presidency in January in large part due to videos Pereira himself published on social media in which he documented...