Brazil's Bolsonaro faces prison
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Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.
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Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab
Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of failed coup plotters to be held to account for their attempted power grab.
Brazil’s Supreme Court convened Thursday for the penultimate day of Jair Bolsonaro’s trial on coup-plot charges, with the panel one vote short of the majority needed to convict the former president.