Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil

Brazil's Supreme Court nears verdict in Bolsonaro coup plot case

If convicted by the five-judge panel in the verdict expected by the end of the week, Bolsonaro could be sentenced to decades behind bars.

09/09/2025

Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro planned to seek asylum in Argentina, Brazil police say

Bolsonaro is currently awaiting a Supreme Court ruling about an alleged coup attempt and learned on Wednesday he might face another case as police formally accused him and one of his sons, Eduardo Bolsonaro, of obstruction of justice.

21/08/2025

Brazil

Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects coup allegations in final court statement

The former president and other defendants were required to present their final arguments by Wednesday. This marks the final procedural step before the trial concludes, which is expected by the end of the year.

14/08/2025

Brazil

Brazil judge places former President Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest

The ruling comes a month after Brazil’s top court ordered the former president to wear an ankle monitor, submit to a curfew and abide by limitations on his activity as legal proceedings investigating an alleged coup plot continue.

05/08/2025

USA

US Treasury sanctions Brazilian judge overseeing Bolsonaro's trial

US President Donald Trump also signed an executive order that effectively implements the 50% tariff announced earlier this month, which he had explicitly linked to Bolsonaro's case.

31/07/2025

Economy

Lula vows retaliatory tariffs if Trump imposes 50% levies on Brazil

Brazilian President Lula da Silva warns of retaliatory tariffs on the US if Trump imposes a 50% levy over Bolsonaro's trial, risking a trade war.

11/07/2025

USA

Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff, demands Bolsonaro trial ends

Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

10/07/2025

Brazil

Brazil's former president to stand trial over coup attempt

Bolsonaro, who fought to stay in power after losing the 2022 election, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and claims he is being politically persecuted.

26/03/2025

Brazil

Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup

Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

19/02/2025

Brazil

Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro indicted over undeclared diamonds

It's the former populist president's second indictment since leaving office, following another in May for allegedly falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination certificate.

05/07/2024

Brazil

185,000 Bolsonaro supporters stage rally to defend him amid coup probe

The former president denied that he and his supporters attempted a coup when rioters assaulted government buildings a year ago.

26/02/2024

Brazil

Brazil: Pro-Bolsonaro rioters on trial for 8 January disorder

Four men are on trial in Brasília accused of crimes including armed criminal conspiracy, violent uprising against the rule of law and an attempted coup

14/09/2023

Green News

Brazil celebrates 34% drop in Amazon deforestation under Lula

It follows four years of rising destruction in the critical rainforest under Bolsonaro, but experts know “the fight isn’t over”.

07/07/2023

Brazil

Former right-wing president Bolsonaro on trial in Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro could be eliminated from the 2026 presidential race if a court decided he broke the law with his unproven allegations against the voting system.

22/06/2023

World News

Brazil's Lula recognises 1,200 square km of Indigenous land

Brazil has recognised six Indigenous areas, most of which are in the threatened Amazon rainforest.

29/04/2023

Brazil

Former President Jair Bolsonaro returns to Brazil

Former President Jair Bolsonaro returned Thursday to Brazil after a three-month stint in Florida following his election loss, and the right-wing populist told supporters he doesn’t think leftists will be in power in the country for long.

30/03/2023

Europe Decoded

Here's why European nations are considering joining the Amazon Fund

Here's why European nations are considering joining the Amazon Fund

03/03/2023

USA

Jair Bolsonaro speaks in Miami still confused he lost election

Only a few weeks after his supporters stormed the seat of his country's government, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday expressed bafflement at how he could have lost October's election.

04/02/2023

Brazil

Brazil: Bolsonaro's nephew's home raided in 8 January 'coup' probe

The series of raids resulting in 11 arrests mark the first time a member of the former president's family has been included in the investigation of the Brasilia uprising.

28/01/2023

Green News

Brazil: Illegal mining has caused Indigenous ‘genocide’, Lula says

President Lula wants to reduce deforestation and gold mining in the Amazon. He has done so in the past - during his 2003-2010 tenure in office, Amazon deforestation dropped by 72 per cent.

23/01/2023