Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s Bolsonaro should be charged with attempting to stage a coup, congressional panel says

A Brazilian congressional panel has accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of instigating the country’s Jan. 8 riots and recommended that he be charged with attempting to stage a coup.

Senator Eliziane Gama, top right, reads her report and recommendation during a meeting by the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee that is investigating the Jan. 8 uprising in Brazil's capital, at the Federal Senate in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Congressional draft report in Brazil recommends charges for Bolsonaro over Jan. 8 insurrection

Luzineide Marques da Silva, a rubber tapper, talks near a damaged rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, in Xapuri, Acre state, Brazil, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Recently some of her forest plot were destroyed by a fire started by a land-grabber encroaching on her territory. (AP Photo/Gleilson Miranda)

Brazil slows Amazon deforestation, but in Chico Mendes’ homeland, it risks being too late

FILE - Former President Jair Bolsonaro talks to reporters after arriving at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, June 30, 2023. Bolsonaro denied on Thursday, Sept. 21, a report claiming he had consulted top military leaders to stage a coup and stop his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from taking office in January.(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro denies proposing coup to military leaders

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Brazil’s Lula pitches his nation — and himself — as fresh leader for Global South

FILE - Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, storm the Supreme Court building in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 8, 2023. Brazil’s Supreme Court handed a 17-year prison sentence Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, to a Bolsonaro supporter who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s top court imposes 17-year sentence, in first case against rioters who stormed the capital

Brazil’s Supreme Court has handed a 17-year prison sentence to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office.

FILE - Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro sit in front of a line of military police inside Planalto Palace after storming the official workplace of the president in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Brazil's federal police on Aug. 18, 2923 arrested seven senior military police officers accused of assisting right-wing rioters during the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Pro-Bolsonaro rioters on trial for storming Brazil’s top government offices

Brazil’s Supreme Court justices have begun mulling whether to convict defendants accused of storming top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore former President Jair Bolsonaro to office.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva makes a heart sign during a military parade on Independence Day in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Lula seeks to project unity and bring the army in line during Independence Day events

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has tried to project national unity during Independence Day events that have included a military parade in the capital.

Federal Police agents stand at Federal Police headquarters minutes before the arrival of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro who will testify in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Bolsonaro and seven others were summoned to answer questions about the sale of luxury goods reportedly worth millions, that the former leader received as gifts from Saudi Arabia while in office, according to a Brasilia federal police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro questioned on gifts of jewelry and watches from Saudi Arabia while in office

Brazilian federal police have questioned former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting to sneak in diamond jewelry reportedly worth $3 million and the sale of two luxury watches that he received as gifts from Saudi Arabia while in office.

FILE - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro gets into a car after landing at the airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Sao Paulo on Aug. 23, 2023 for what a close aide described as routine health examinations. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro leaves hospital after routine health checks

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has left the Sao Paulo hospital where he underwent a series of routine medical exams.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro in hospital for routine exams

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is in hospital in Sao Paulo undergoing what a close aide describes as routine health examinations.

FILE - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media upon arriving at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, June 29, 2023. Brazil’s federal police on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, alleged Bolsonaro received cash from the sale of two luxury watches he received as gifts from Saudi Arabia while in office. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused by ex-aide’s lawyer of ordering sale of jewelry given as official gift

A lawyer for an aide to then Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says the leader ordered the aide to sell undeclared luxury jewelry received as a gift and funnel the money to him.

Brazil arrests 7 senior military police officers over Jan. 8 riots

Brazil’s federal police have arrested seven top military police officers who are accused of assisting right-wing rioters during the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings in the capital, Brasilia.

Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the voting system ahead of 2022 vote

A Brazilian hacker claims then-President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to hack the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the 2022 presidential election.

Brazil’s police allege Bolsonaro got money from $70,000 sale of luxury jewelry gifts

Brazil’s federal police allege former President Jair Bolsonaro received cash from the sale of two luxury watches he received as gifts from Saudi Arabia while in office.

Brazil’s former highway police director has been arrested in a probe into election interference

Police in Brazil have arrested the former director of the Federal Highway Police as part of an investigation into possible political interference in last year’s presidential elections.

Maira Tembe stands inside Teatro da Paz before the start of a ceremony to present Brazil's national Indigenous census in Belem, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Belem will host the Amazon Summit, a meeting by the nations that are part of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela and French Guiana. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil has 1.7 million Indigenous people, near double the count from prior census, government says

While just 0.8% of Brazil’s population, the figure marks an 89% jump from the prior census, in 2010.

An Indigenous Wari' boy swims in the Komi Memem River, named Laje in non-Indigenous maps, in Guajara-Mirim, Rondonia state, Brazil, Thursday, July 13, 2023. The Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim recently approved a law that designates the river "as a living entity and subject to rights." (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Indigenous leader inspires an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river

In late June, the Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River “as a living entity and subject to rights.”

Sao Paulo police kill 14 people in raid as they investigate the slaying of an elite officer

The death toll from a raid in Sao Paulo state has climbed to 14, as the law enforcement sought to strike at those who killed an elite squad officer last week, and raising questions about their use of lethal force.

Chief Raoni Metuktire gives an interview in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Raoni, who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, called upon Brazil's president on Friday, July 28, 2023 to defend the rights of Indigenous people. (AP Photo/Gustavo Moreno)

Brazil’s Indigenous chief fighting to save Amazon urges President Lula to defend people’s rights

An Indigenous leader who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon has called upon Brazil’s president to defend the rights of Indigenous people, including removing “invaders” from their territories and ending ongoing negotiations on carbon credits.

FILE - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro prepares to speak to the press at a restaurant in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 30, 2023, the day that judges ruled him ineligible to run for any political office again until 2030 after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country's electronic voting system. (AP Photo/Thomas Santos, File)

Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fades from the spotlight

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fading from the spotlight, showing the courts’ power over the electoral system and the political shortcomings of the increasingly powerless former leader.

FILE - Shooting club owner Charles Blagitz shows machine guns at his shooting club in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 25, 2022. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree July 21, 2023 tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Brazil’s Lula places new restrictions on gun ownership, reversing predecessor’s pro-gun policy

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil, in a move aimed at reversing the pro-firearms policies of his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

FILE - Sugarloaf mountain and Guanabara Bay are seen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8, 2016. The number of violent deaths in 2022 reached the lowest level in more than a decade, according to a July 20, 2023 report by Brazilian researchers at the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an independent group that tracks crimes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Homicides in Brazil at the lowest level in over a decade, report says

Researchers say the number of homicides in Brazil last year reached the lowest level in more than a decade.

FILE - Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 23, 2020. After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's term, according to government satellite data released Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

In Lula’s first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, providing an encouraging sign for his administration’s environmental efforts.

FILE - Kids play in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, March 1, 2023. Scores of Indigenous families have left their territory in the Javari Valley, for the impoverished city of Atalaia do Norte, some in pursuit of a better education and drawn by a federal benefit that can ensnare them in the city. (AP Photo/Fabiano Maisonnave, File)

Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities, and finding urban poverty

Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro prepares to speak to the press at a restaurant in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Friday, June 30, 2023. The panel of judges voted Friday to render Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country's electronic voting system. (AP Photo/Thomas Santos)

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running for office until 2030

Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from running for office again until 2030 after a panel of judges concluded that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press outside his house after Federal Police agents carried out a search and seizure warrant in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. When asked about the search of Bolsonaro’s home in Brasilia, the Federal Police press office gave a statement saying officers were carrying out searches and arrests related to the introduction of fraudulent data related to the COVID-19 vaccine into the nation’s health system. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro questioned in fake vaccine card investigation

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was questioned Tuesday by Federal Police in an investigation into allegations that COVID-19 vaccine cards were falsified to get around U.S. vaccine requirements.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press outside his home after Federal Police agents carried out a search and seizure warrant in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. When asked about the search of Bolsonaro’s home in Brasilia, the Federal Police press office gave a statement saying officers were carrying out searches and arrests related to the introduction of fraudulent data related to the COVID-19 vaccine into the nation’s health system. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Bolsonaro home searched as Brazil probes fake vaccine cards

Brazil’s Federal Police have searched former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and seized his phone in what they say is an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, stands between Indigenous Peoples Minister Sonia Guajajara, left, and National Indigenous Foundation President Joenia Wapichana at the closing of the annual Terra Livre, or Free Land Indigenous Encampment in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved the creation of six Indigenous territories, the first such move after a five-year hiatus in Indigenous demarcation.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves after giving testimony over the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings, at Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters trashed the presidential palace, the Supreme Court and Congress one week into President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's third term in office. At left is a police agent. (AP Photo/Gustavo Morteno)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro gives testimony to police on Jan. 8 riot

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gave testimony at the Federal Police headquarters Wednesday about his actions related to the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings in the capital, Brasilia.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro waves to supporters at the Liberal Party's headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 30, 2023. Bolsonaro arrived back in Brazil on Thursday after a three-month stay in Florida, seeking a new role on the political scene. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil judge orders police to question Bolsonaro on uprising

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the federal police Friday to take testimony from former President Jair Bolsonaro as part of the investigation itno the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings in the capital.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waves as he arrives for a ministerial meeting to review the first 100 days of his government at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, April 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

In first 100 days, Brazil’s Lula aims to revive his legacy

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finishes the first 100 days of his third term as Brazil’s president on Monday and his return to power has been marked by efforts to reinstate his past social policies and undo his predecessor’s legacy.

Police walk outside Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro entered the Federal Police headquarters on Wednesday to be questioned on whether diamond jewelry brought into the country from Saudi Arabia were public gifts that Bolsonaro improperly tried to prevent from being incorporated into the presidency’s public collection, or private gifts that Bolsonaro tried sneak into Brazil without paying taxes. Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing connected to the gifts.(AP Photo/Gustavo Moreno)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro questioned about gifts of diamond jewelry

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro underwent questioning Wednesday about diamond jewelry gifts when he was in power, as part of an investigation into whether he engaged in any irregularities in bringing the items into Brazil.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva smiles during a meeting with mayors from all over the country to discuss public policy issues and the federal government's support for municipalities, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil volleyballer suspended for online abuse of Lula

SAO PAULO (AP) — Olympic volleyball gold medalist Wallace de Souza was suspended for one year by Brazil’s Olympic Committee on Monday for online abuse of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Bolsonaro returns to Brazil after 3-month stint in Florida

Former President Jair Bolsonaro has returned to Brazil after a three-month stint in Florida following his election loss.