Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

[tulipsandroses]

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a failed conspiracy to overturn the 2022 Brazilian election in a coup plot that included disbanding courts, empowering the military and assassinating the president-elect.

Four of the five justices weighing the case voted to convict Mr. Bolsonaro and seven co-conspirators, including his running mate, defense minister and Navy commander, in a forceful rebuke by one of the very institutions the men sought to overthrow.

Mr. Bolsonaro, 70, was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, though his lawyers are likely to request house arrest because of his health problems.

The conviction is a landmark ruling for Latin America’s largest nation. In at least 15 coups and coup attempts with links to the military since Brazil overthrew its monarchy in 1889, Thursday marked the first time the leaders of one of those plots have been convicted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/americas/bolsonaro-convicted-coup-attempt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.G31H.0OhvXMXdPZNV&smid=url-share

[still-prayin4rain]

1. A better functioning government than we have here. Smh.

[Turbineguy]

2. There was a case in England

where the elderly perp was given a long jail sentence. He complained that would not live long enough to complete his sentence. "Then you must serve as much as you can." the Judge replied.

[MrWowWow]

3. tr💩mp should be in prison as well.

Thanks to a terrible AG during.the Biden presidency though, stinky dollhands is helming this ship of fools, as it sleepily sails into civil war.

[SunSeeker]

4. K & R