The ex-president Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in bakeries, popular restaurants and ice cream parlors during his four years in office, according to data released by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In all, Bolsonaro spent 27.6 million reais (about $5.3 million) with the government’s corporate credit card. However, […]
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Lula regrets that Bolsonaro has not recognized his electoral defeat
The Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaregretted this Wednesday that his predecessor, Jair Bolsonarohas not yet recognized its defeat in the October elections, nor have the thousands of Bolsonaristas who promoted the assaults on the headquarters of the three powers on Sunday. “Unfortunately the president who left power on December 31 does not want […]
Prosecutors in Brazil keep an eye on Bolsonaro’s assets as his wealthy supporters criticize violence
Officials said the money is to be used to help pay for damage to public property when protesters stormed government buildings in Brasilia on Jan. 8. Investigators have also identified more than 100 companies suspected of financing the rioters and will ask that their assets be frozen, CNN Brazil reported, without saying where they got […]
Presence of Jair Bolsonaro, uncomfortable for the US
The government of Joe Biden is under increasing pressure from leftists in Latin Americaas well as US legislators, to expel Jair Bolsonaro of a post-presidential retreat in Florida after the attack by his supporters in the capital of Brazil during the weekend. But the right-wing former president could anticipate any plans for such a forceful […]
Lula’s government monitors conditions of 1,500 detainees for coup acts
The President’s Government Brazilian, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaannounced this Tuesday that it is monitoring the situation of the nearly 1,500 detainees for Sunday’s assaults on the offices of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court after complaints that their rights have been violated. Concern over the situation of the arrested radical Bolsonarists, most of […]
Social media companies also failed in Brazil
Even before the incident, ahead of the presidential elections last October, Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp were filled with misinformation about the integrity of the vote in Brazil, in which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated Bolsonaro. It doesn’t help that Meta allows misinformation from political candidates to go unchecked, a policy that should have […]
Bolsonaro finds a new home in Florida
As Brazil lives in the aftermath of mobs breaking into the main seats of power, its former president has moved to a Florida resort, where a crowd of supporters turned out to cheer him on. Jair Bolsonaro devotees have traveled in recent days to the former president’s temporary home, a gated community with water slides, […]
Bolsonaro hospitalized for abdominal pain, confirms his wife
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized and is “in observation” for “abdominal discomfort”, said his wife on Monday, after Brazilian media reported that he had been admitted to a hospital in the United States. One day after thousands of supporters of the ex-president seized the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia, Michelle Bolsonaro […]
The head of security of Brasilia is dismissed after invasions by Bolsonaristas
The Secretary of Security of the Federal District of Brasilia, Anderson Torres, an ally of the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, He was dismissed from his position this Sunday, after the invasion of radical Bolsonaristas to the headquarters of Parliament, the Presidency and the Supreme Court. “I determined the dismissal of the Secretary of Security […]
Lula da Silva affirms that “fascist vandals” will be found and punished
The president of BrazilLuiz Inácio Lula da Silvapointed out this Sunday that the “fascist vandals” who invaded the headquarters of Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Presidency will be “found” and “punished.” The president described as “barbarism” the serious altercations experienced today in the Brazilian capital by radicals of the extreme right who demand a […]