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Ex-Brazilian president indicted for money laundering, criminal association, sources say
Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds he received from Saudi Arabia.
Brazil's ex-president indicted for allegedly lying about COVID vax status in gov database
Brazil’s Federal Police have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of criminal association and falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader with others potentially in store.
Former Brazilian president under investigation for allegedly harassing humpback whale
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation for having allegedly “harassed” a humpback whale while riding a personal watercraft off Sao Paulo’s coast last year.
Jair Bolsonaro teases third run for president of Brazil at CPAC
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro teased a possible third campaign for his country's top job.
Brazil's president Lula fires army chief one month into term
De Arruda was sworn in on December 30 by Bolsonaro before da Silva's inauguration earlier this month. Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida on the eve of da Silva's inauguration Jan....
Brazil rioters destroyed priceless artistic treasures in assault on capital city
Modernist furniture was burned, portraits defaced, sculptures decapitated and ceramics smashed. Carpets were found soaked with water from the buildings' sprinkler systems, as well as with urine.
Brazil's former justice minister arrested for collusion with rioters
Anderson Torres, who was in charge of security for the capital city at the time of the riots, was taken into custody, according to a statement by Brazil's federal police.
Brazil's supreme court investigating ex-President Bolsonaro over Jan. 8 riots
Brazil’s supreme court said late Friday that former President Jair Bolsonaro will be investigated for allegedly inciting his far-right supporters to storm the Brazilian capital on Jan. 8.
Brazil rioters plotted openly online, pitched huge ‘party’
The post was one of several thinly coded messages circulating on social media ahead of Sunday’s violent attack on the capital by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro looking to restore the far-right leader...
Biden calls Brazil's Lula after mob ransacks government buildings
The Brazilian president will visit Washington in early February.
Former Brazilian president checks into Florida hospital in wake of violent riots
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro checked into a Florida hospital with "abdominal pain" a day after his supporters stormed his country's hall of government in a violent raid that evoked...
Dems call on Biden to boot Bolsonaro from US after attack on Brazil
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and another House Democrat called on President Biden to extradite former Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro from Florida a day after thousands of his supporters staged a violent...
Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil's capital city in Jan 6.-style attack
Thousands of the former Brazilian president's loyalists flooded the buildings in the country’s capital of Brasilia despite security barriers, just a week after leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s...
Lula takes over in Brazil, slams Bolsonaro's anti-democratic threats
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course...
Jair Bolsonaro may have left Brazil for Florida, will skip Lula's inauguration: officials
In Bolsonaro’s absence, it is not clear who will hand over the presidential sash to Lula on Sunday.
Brazil president ends 40-day post-election loss silence: 'It hurts my soul'
He has not recognized Lula's victory in the October elections and his silence encouraged supporters to continue demonstrations outside army bases.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro 'brooded' for 2 days before bowing to election defeat
Bolsonaro said last year that his options for 2022 were "prison, death or victory."
Bolsonaro declines to concede Brazil defeat in first address since election
Bolsonaro’s address didn’t mention election results, but he said he will continue to follow the rules of the nation’s constitution.
Brazil’s brash President Bolsonaro mum after election loss to leftist Lula
Nearly a full day after President Jair Bolsonaro lost his bid for reelection to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the right-wing leader had neither conceded defeat nor challenged the results of...
Brazil tallying votes as leftist seeks to oust Bolsonaro in contentious presidential election
Leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to retake the presidency and beat the far-right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro.