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Al Jazeera reports: Brazil’s leader has withdrawn his personal assurance that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not be arrested if he attends next year’s Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, saying it would be up to the judiciary to decide. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also questioned Brazil’s membership in the United Nations war crimes court, saying …

Bloomberg News reports: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva risked a clash with fellow Group of 20 leaders after saying that Vladimir Putin would be safe to travel to next year’s G-20 without fear of arrest. The Russian leader, who is subject to an international arrest warrant over his invasion of Ukraine, skipped India’s G-20 summit in its second …

Reuters reports: Brazil’s Supreme Court on Saturday authorized a cooperation deal between former President Jair Bolsonaro’s former aide and the country’s Federal Police, tightening the vice on the ex-leader who faces multiple criminal probes that could land him in jail. He has already been ruled politically ineligible until 2030 by Brazil’s federal electoral court. The aide, Mauro Cid, has been …

Reuters reports: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faced mounting legal pressure on Friday, as police probed his personal finances and communications while a jailed former aide mulled testifying about his role in a Rolex-peddling scheme allegedly masterminded by the ex-president. On Thursday morning, in a televised congressional probe into the Jan. 8 insurrection, a computer programmer told lawmakers that Bolsonaro …

Bloomberg News reports: A majority of Brazil’s electoral court voted to bar Jair Bolsonaro from public office for eight years in what amounts to the first major legal rebuke of the former president, whose efforts to sow doubt about the 2022 election have now put his political future at risk. Four of the court’s seven judges said that the right-wing …

The Guardian reports: Brazilian politicians, celebrities and social activists have paid tribute to the vivacious, loving and combative former congressman and campaigner David Miranda who has died in Rio de Janeiro aged 37. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, celebrated the “extraordinary trajectory” of the favela-born politician who served in the country’s congress between 2019 and 2022 and was a …

The Washington Post reports: Brazilian police are investigating whether former president Jair Bolsonaro tried to deceive American authorities into believing, incorrectly, that he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus so he could enter the United States, authorities said Wednesday. Federal police conducted a search and seizure operation at Bolsonaro’s Brasília address early Wednesday and arrested several close associates, including a …

Reuters reports: Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro returned from three months in the United States on Thursday and was welcomed back by hundreds of chanting supporters at the Brasilia airport before heading straight into meetings with his political party. The turnout was considerably smaller than expected by police, and a minister in leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula’s cabinet called …

Reuters reports: With its modest selection of wooden chopping boards, beer glasses and coffee cups, the newly launched Bolsonaro Store website offers fans of the pugnacious former president the opportunity to invest in his political future and take home a Bolsonaro-branded commemorative keepsake. “Our dream is more alive than ever,” reads a wooden desk statuette that features Bolsonaro’s silhouette, available …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday he intends to return to Brazil “in the following weeks.” The comment during an event at an evangelical church in Florida was the first time that Bolsonaro has made a statement in public about returning home. Saturday’s event was held entirely in Portuguese for a Brazilian crowd of Bolsonaro supporters …

Reuters reports: A Brazilian senator said on Thursday that a close ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro tried to persuade the senator to join a conspiracy to overturn the far-right leader’s electoral loss last year. Senator Marcos do Val told a news conference that he had been invited to a meeting on Dec. 9 with then-President Bolsonaro by his associate, …

Bloomberg News reports: The eldest son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that his father doesn’t have a deadline to return to Brazil and dismissed the idea of extradition by the US. Bolsonaro traveled to the US late last month, two days before the end of his term, skipping the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da …

Reuters reports: A wildly successful government-run payments system, Pix has become a key financial pillar underpinning Bolsonaro’s election-denial movement, allowing his most ardent fans to crowdfund their alternative media outlets and far-right demonstrations culminating in the chaos of Jan. 8. But now, as authorities seek to identify the funders of the Brasilia riots, the same tool that helped to forge …

Agence France-Presse reports: More than $21,000 splurged at a modest restaurant — $10,700 spent at a bakery in a single day. The public release Friday of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s official credit card expenditures is raising eyebrows in Brazil. More than 27.6 million reais — more than $5 million at today’s exchange rate — was charged to the far-right president’s card …

The New York Post reports: A Brazilian homemaker accused truth-challenged GOP Congressman George Santos of allegedly draining her bank account and stealing her jewelry in an interview with the country’s largest broadcaster this week. Adriana Damasceno told O Globo that she met Santos and his mother, Fatima Devolder, at a bingo hall in the city of Niteroi where Santos was …

Reuters reports: Brazil’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings a week ago, was arrested in Brasilia on Saturday on suspicion of “omission” and “connivance”. Torres was arrested after returning to Brazil on Saturday. He had been on vacation in Florida, the same U.S. state his ex-boss, …

Deutsche Welle reports: Brazilian prosecutors on Friday called on the country’s Supreme Court to probe former President Jair Bolsonaro, after recent violent riots in the capital, Brasilia. The Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR) office said Bolsonaro may have “publicly incited the commission of a crime” with his social media activity. The PGR cited a video posted by Bolsonaro on January …

Bloomberg News reports: Brazilian prosecutors asked a court to seize the assets of former President Jair Bolsonaro as their investigation of the violent, anti-government riots that shook the country Sunday expands beyond the demonstrators themselves. Officials said the money should be used to help pay for the damage to public property when protesters stormed government buildings in Brasilia on Jan. …

“Consider what is happening tonight in Brazil. So, thanks to what was very clearly a rigged election, a convicted criminal called Lula da Silva is now the president of the most important country in South America. “Millions of people in Brazil understand exactly what happened. So, yesterday in frustration, a group of Brazilian protestors swarmed their legislature. “They know their …

Reuters reports: The United States has not received any official requests from the Brazilian government regarding the status of former President Jair Bolsonaro after his supporters stormed Brazil’s Congress, the White House said on Monday. National security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters it appeared that democratic institutions in Brazil were holding. He said U.S. officials are not in direct contact …