Brazil’s Bolsonaro planned and participated in a 2022 coup plot, an unsealed police report alleges
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Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was fully aware of and actively participated in a coup plot to remain in office after his defeat in 2022.

Summary

An unsealed Brazilian Federal Police report alleges that former President Jair Bolsonaro actively planned and participated in a 2022 coup plot to remain in power after losing to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The report details Bolsonaro’s presentation of a draft decree to military commanders to suspend electoral court powers and investigate alleged voting fraud, though opposition from army and air force leaders stopped the plan.

Bolsonaro denies involvement, but faces accusations of staging a coup, eliminating the rule of law, and forming a criminal organization, with potential prison sentences of 11+ years if convicted.

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    771·
    21 hours ago

    This is what happens when you’re in a country with laws. In 3rd country banana democracy, you don’t go to jail for a coup, you run for president and win!

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
      7·
      16 hours ago

      2nd world oligarchy more like. Trump’s organized crime to politics pipeline is straight out of Russia and the corrupt parts of Ukrainian history. I think “The Road to Unfreedom” by Timothy Snyder comments on all the connections and common themes between oligarchy in Ukraine and Russia and in the US, but I’m still reading through it.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      14·
      20 hours ago

      Brazil has been under a military dictatorship and they remember (until 50 years ago), same for many EU countries. The USian in contrast has no concept of what is at stake until it will be too late.

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        11·
        20 hours ago

        American exceptionalism is really a disease. They think they’re somehow different.

      • chingadera@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Pointing this out actually gives me a little hope, albeit not a whole lot. We’re absolutely heading that way, but knowing others have gotten out still means a lot. Cheers to a ton of pain and suffering soon, guys.