Brazilians protest in their thousands against granting Bolsonaro amnesty

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Source: The Guardian

Tens of thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to demand no amnesty be granted to their country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro after he was convicted of plotting a coup.

The far-right populist was sentenced to 27 years in prison earlier this month for illegally attempting to cling to power after he lost the 2022 presidential election to his leftwing opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

On Sunday, huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab, which included a plan to assassinate Lula, the vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, and a supreme court judge.

The pro-democracy protests were spearheaded by some of Brazil’s best-loved musicians, including a trio of legendary songwriters who were at the forefront of the fight against the country’s brutal 1964-85 military dictatorship: Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/21/brazil-protest-against-jair-bolsonaro-amnesty

[malaise]

1. K & R for visibility

Important

[MrWowWow]

2. Are Reichwing Billionaires Funding Another Insurrection?

Same Shit Different Day

[wolfie001]

3. Keep tRUMP's Brazilian BFF in prison

Let him rot. You don't want him in charge again. Look at what the fat orange imbecile has done to the USA!

[iemanja]

4. Wow. Way to go, Brasileiros .

[tornado34jh]

5. South America has seen a lot of dictatorships, Brazil is no different

But at least Brazil is trying to fight against the right-wing dictatorship, unlike here in the US.

[iemanja]

8. Brazil's dictatorship ended in the 1980s

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and started in 1964. Stereotypes aren’t helpful.

[tornado34jh]

9. Okay, but Bolsonaro absolutely would have tried to be a dictator if they had let him

After all, he is friends with Trump. It's much easier than a lot of people realize for a dictatorship to form, especially if they don't know the signs of an impeding one.

[iemanja]

10. Yes, and he tried to stage a coup

but the military refused. It was they who ran the last dictatorship.

I agree with your point about how easy it is for a dictatorship to form. We are experiencing that threat now in our own country.

[BidenRocks]

6. This is why coffee prices have doubled.

Chumps hissy fit against Brazil!

[BlueWavePsych]

7. Breakfast table battle: Brazil and Bolsonaro, America and Trump, and the squeezing of Florida

Now a domineering president has unilaterally put a new tariff on coffee as well as other vital imports in an effort to protect and defend a fellow insurrectionist and would-be dictator against his own people’s justice and democracy.

One of the key complaints against King George III in the Declaration of Independence was that he was “cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world” and imposing taxes without the peoples’ consent.

Perhaps it’s time for another protest against an unfair, unrepresentative and damaging tariff imposed by fiat, for, as the Declaration of Independence put it: “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” Just remember that as you drink your next morning orange juice and down your breakfast cup of coffee.

Dictators don’t pay their bills.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/19/2344461/-Breakfast-table-battle-Brazil-and-Bolsonaro-America-and-Trump-and-the-squeezing-of-Florida