Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d'état

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Source: The Guardian

The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police of being part of a criminal conspiracy designed to obliterate Brazil’s democratic system through a rightwing coup d’état.
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In a statement, police said the report – which has been forwarded to the supreme court – formally accused a total of 37 people of crimes including involvement in an attempted coup, the formation of a criminal organization, and trying to tear down one of the world’s largest democracies.
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They included Bolsonaro’s former spy chief, the far-right congressman Alexandre Ramagem; the former defense ministers Gen Walter Braga Netto and Gen Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira; the former minister of justice and public security, Anderson Torres; the former minister of institutional security, Gen Augusto Heleno; the former navy commander Adm Almir Garnier Santos; the president of Bolsonaro’s political party, Valdemar Costa Neto; and Filipe Martins, one of Bolsonaro’s top foreign policy advisers.

Also named is the rightwing blogger grandson of Gen João Baptista Figueiredo, one of the military rulers who governed Brazil during its 1964-85 dictatorship.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/jair-bolsonaro-charged-coup-plot

[Easterncedar]

1. The Brazilians could teach us a thing

[Judi Lynn]

2. Brazilian police arrest 5 officers in alleged 2022 coup plot to kill President Lula, others

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA
Updated 4:15 PM CST, November 19, 2024

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil ’s federal police arrested Tuesday five officers accused of plotting a coup that included plans to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections and kill then-President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, authorities said.

The five also planned to kill Lula’s running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The arrested included four special operations military personnel, one of whom is a retired brigadier general, and a federal police officer.

The police said they also carried out three search warrants along with other measures, including seizing the suspects’ passports and preventing them from contacting others. It was not clear when charges would be officially raised against the five suspects.

“The objective was to prevent the inauguration of the legitimately elected government and undermine the free exercise of democracy and the authority of Brazil’s judiciary,” de Moraes, who authorized the arrests, said of the plot in his order.

“These actions, peaking between November and December 2022, were part of a broader plan to carry out a coup d’état,” he added.

More:
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-president-lula-coup-plot-85a793fcef04c7dbd96746b947129042

[FakeNoose]

3. Is he another one of Pootie's buddies?

Sounds like it.

[JoseBalow]

10. Yes, he's up Putin's ass, and he's a big advocate for BRICS

Putin and Xi love him

[Judi Lynn]

4. Bolsonaro was called the "Tropical Trump"

He ran his first Presidential campaign howling about his intentions to enable his cops to violently clean the streets of criminals, hated indigenous Brazilians, claimed to envy the US' history of having nearly destroyed the indigenous people who lived here originally, shrieked his hatred of gay and lesbian Brazilians, bellowed his support for Brazil's many fundamentalist "Christians," and had Lula da Silva, his opponent, set up and imprisoned to prevent him from campaigning the first time. Lula, of course, was freed by a Brazilian judge after Bolsonaro was elected.

He also told a fellow Cogressperson she was too ugly to rape, publicly, years ago.
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He also pretended to have been nearly assassinated in public, surrounded by his bodyguards, who whisked him away swiftly and kept him hospitalized until he only had to campaign a short time before the election and rode his martyrdom to the Presidency. The claim was that he had been stabbed but was surrounded at all times as they walked/carried him off very quickly.

[electric_blue68]

11. I remember. Ugh.

[tornado34jh]

5. This is what we should have done here in the US with Trump back in 2020

But alas, we didn't because of corrupt judges and the whole lot.

[intheflow]

7. And Garland, of course.

[tornado34jh]

8. I guess if you have a lot of money and influence, you can get away with things.

Certainly an average Joe like me would never get away from the things this guy did. But it shows there truly is a tiered system.

[doc03]

6. Many people in the USA think south Amerixcan countries are banana republics and

shit hole countries. Sounds like they could teach us a thing or two.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Glenn Greenwald was unavailable for comment 😐

[C0RI0LANUS]

12. Two Doppelgangers

[oldmanlynn]

13. That sounds like something that should be going on here

Where are our secret federal police ready to go nab the Trumpsters