Summary

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others have been charged by federal police with conspiracy and attempting to overthrow the country’s democracy through a right-wing coup.

The accused include top allies, such as former defense ministers and intelligence officials.

The charges follow an investigation into efforts to dismantle the constitutional state, backed by evidence from financial records and plea deals.

This comes days after arrests in a separate plot to assassinate President Lula da Silva and other officials.

Bolsonaro denies involvement in the 2022 election conspiracy.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    8310 hours ago

    Um…

    😳

    I’ve seen this one.

    Is Brazil gonna re-elect the coup plotter like some other country did?

    Please don’t do that again.

    • Prior_Industry
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      329 hours ago

      Hopefully their court system moves faster than snail pace

      • @Skullgrid
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        309 hours ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Charges_of_coup_planning_and_fraud

        On 30 June 2023, the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court barred Bolsonaro from running for public office until 2030 as a result of his attempts to undermine the validity of Brazil’s 2022 democratic election, as well as for abuse of power with regard to using government channels to promote his campaign

        In February 2024, the Brazilian Federal Police raided former government officials and ordered Bolsonaro to hand in his passport over accusations that he and his allies tried to overturn the results of the 2022 election and planned a coup d’état.[180] In March 2024, witness documents released by the Superior Electoral Court were made public. According to two military officials, Bolsonaro had plotted to overturn the 2022 results and presented top military officials a plan to carry out a coup with the goal of keeping him in power.

        no, they have a functioning democracy in brazil

        • @marcos
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          55 hours ago

          From that to a “functioning democracy” there’s a large distance. But yeah, it’s not completely disfunctional

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          77 hours ago

          Bruh.

          The most powerful country in the world couldn’t even do democracy better than a “Third World Country”

          🤦‍♂️

        • @ChilledPeppers
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          25 hours ago

          We do kinda have a two party system tho, and there is already a bigger asshole (Pablo Marcal) planning to run for president, after getting thrid place in the biggest city.

  • IninewCrow
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    109 hours ago

    Great … I thought we went through the assassination/coup phase of history already … looks like we’ll be repeating all that crap again.

    • Flying SquidM
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      39 hours ago

      I am guessing Trump will either not make it to inauguration day alive or they will 25th Amendment him soon afterward since his brain is soup.

  • @[email protected]
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    49 hours ago

    This comes days after arrests in a separate plot to assassinate President Lula da Silva and other officials.

    Oh there’s no relation I’m sure. Zero. Zip.