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For years now, politics in Brazil have been the fun-house-mirror version of those in the United States. The dynamic was never plainer than it became last week, when Brazilian prosecutors formally charged the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro,

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says predecessor Jair Bolsonaro is acknowledging his guilt in a case in which he's accused of plotting a coup to stay in power by focusing on a campaign for amnesty.

Bolsonaro has been nicknamed the 'Trump of the Tropics' but he is facing a lot of hurdles to reclaim his position. He has been barred from standing in the next election by the courts and he has been charged with planning a coup.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a luncheon with senators from his support base, at the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Pe

Measles cases are spiking in West Texas, how China is responding as the U.S. ends funding for pro-democracy groups, and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faces charges over alleged coup plot.

- Minister of the Supreme Electoral Court Carmen Lucia reads out her vote during the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, Brazil, June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo

Brazil’s top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

Brazil’s attorney general accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a scheme to try to hold on to power. The Supreme Court will decide whether he is arrested.

Former president Jair Bolsonaro is accused of plotting the assassination of political rivals and a military takeover of Latin America’s largest country.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday denied accusations that he orchestrated a coup to stay in office and said the charges were the result of an authoritarian regime manufacturing “internal enemies.