Tag Archives: Jair Bolsonaro

NYT: Brazil’s Bolsonaro Fled To Hungarian Embassy As Authorities Closed In His Plot To Orchestrate A Coup

The New York Times reports: On Feb. 8, Brazil’s federal police confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and arrested a pair of his former aides on accusations that they had plotted a coup after Mr. Bolsonaro lost the 2022 presidential election. Four days later, Mr. Bolsonaro was at the entrance to the Hungarian Embassy in Brazil, waiting to be let …

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Jair Bolsonaro Indicted On COVID Vax Fraud Charges

The BBC reports: Brazilian police have formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of fraud relating to his Covid vaccination records, paving the way for possible criminal charges in the Supreme Court. His health records say he received the vaccine in Sao Paulo in 2021. But an investigation later found he was not in the city at the time. Mr Bolsonaro, …

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Brazil Charges Jair Bolsonaro With Inciting Insurrection

The New York Times reports: Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil oversaw a broad conspiracy to hold on to power regardless of the results of the 2022 election, including personally editing a proposed order to arrest a Supreme Court justice and call new elections after he lost, according to new accusations by Brazilian federal police unveiled on Thursday. Mr. Bolsonaro …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Faked His COVID Vaccine Records

Reuters reports: The vaccination records of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro are false, the country’s comptroller general’s office said on Thursday after an investigation regarding the alleged tampering of information on his COVID-19 vaccination card. The records show that Bolsonaro, a COVID-19 skeptic who publicly opposed the vaccine, received a dose of the immunizer in a public healthcare center in …

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Former Top Bolsonaro Aide Will Testify Against Him

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 …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Accused Of Ordering Vote Tampering

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 …

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Bolsonaro Banned From Holding Office For Eight Years

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 …

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Brazilian Cops: Bolsonaro Faked Vax Status To Enter US

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 …

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Bolsonaro Returns To Brazil After Months In Florida

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 …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Launches Trump-Style Merch Store

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 …

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Jair Bolsonaro To Speak Next Month At CPAC In DC

The Washington Examiner reports: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has agreed to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in March, a major get for the chairman Matt Schlapp. Bolsonaro, often dubbed the Donald Trump of South America, could lay out his plans to return to power in a campaign against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won …

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Bolsonaro Teases Return To Brazil In “Following Weeks”

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 …

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Charlie Kirk’s Outfit To Fete Bolsonaro At Miami Event

Current reports: For many MAGA Americans, Bolsonaro’s Christian nationalism, strong anti-LGBTQ beliefs, and disagreement with the scientific consensus on climate change make him a hero. One of those people, apparently, is Charlie Kirk. On February 3, Bolsonaro will come out of exile and travel to Miami to speak at a Kirk event called “Power of the People.” Charlie Kirk never …

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Bolsonaro Accused Of Plot To Overturn Election Result

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, …

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Jair Bolsonaro Applies For Six-Month US Tourist Visa

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 …

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Brazil’s Insurrectionists Left Crowdfunding Paper Trail

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 …

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Bolsonaro Charged Over $5 Million To Govt Credit Card

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 …

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Top Bolsonaro Official Arrested Upon Return From FL

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, …

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Brazilian Prosecutors Accuse Bolsonaro Of Inciting Riot

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 …

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Brazilian Prosecutors Seek To Seize Bolsonaro’s Assets

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. …

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