For Brazil, the verdict is proof that even a former president can be held accountable. For the US, it is a reminder of the road not taken.

The Brazilian ex-president has been sentenced to 27 years for plotting a coup, but an amnesty could be on the cards.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for plotting a coup to overturn his 2022 election defeat. The Supreme Court ruling marks the first conviction of a former Brazilian leader for attacking democracy,

Police claim Brazil’s ex-President Jair Bolsonaro wrote letter seeking asylum in Argentina as coup investigation ramped up in 2024.

The former Brazilian president denies conspiring to overturn his 2022 election loss to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The allegations that could keep Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist former president, behind bars for the rest of his life are astonishingly lurid – more telenovela than statecraft.

In a nod to President Trump, Brazil’s nationalist movement has adopted the stars and stripes. Now one flag could be the focus of an investigation involving the N.F.L.