Bolsonaro to Stand Trial for Attempted Coup in Brazil

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Issue Mar 26-Apr 01 2025: On March 26, 2025, the First Panel of Brazil’s Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) voted unanimously in favor of moving on with the charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants in connection with the riots of Jan. 8, 2023, which prosecutors argue constituted an attempted coup d’état following Bolsonaro’s defeat in the 2022 elections by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Pundits, editorialists, and political analysts gamed out the possible scenarios.

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