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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro to be investigated as part of inquiry into January 8 riot

‘Public figures who continue to cowardly conspire against democracy trying to establish a state of exception will be held accountable’

The Independent UK

Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for riot

Brazil's Supreme Court granted the request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video he posted on Facebook two days after the riot.

WEKU

Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to investigate Bolsonaro over riot

Brazil’s Supreme Court has agreed to investigate whether former president Jair Bolsonaro incited the far-right mob that ransacked the country’s Congress, top court and presidential offices, a swift escalation in the probe that shows the ex-leader could face legal consequences for an extremist movement he helped build.

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Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to probe Bolsonaro for riot

The Independent UK

Brazil's Supreme Court to investigate Bolsonaro over capital riot

"Public figures who continue to cowardly conspire against democracy ... will be held accountable," a Supreme Court justice said.

Axios

Brazil top court orders probe of Bolsonaro over insurrection

A Brazilian top court justice ordered an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro for the alleged incitement of riots, escalating the political fallout from the insurrection at the nation’s capital on Jan. 8.

Tribune News Service

Brazil's prosecutors asks Supreme Court to investigate Bolsonaro's role in Brasilia riots

Brazilian federal prosecutors on Friday asked the Supreme Court to investigate the role of former President Jair Bolsonaro in the anti-democratic acts that resulted in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia last Sunday.

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Fans get Bolsonaro autographs as ex-leader rests in Florida

Several dozen fans scored autographs from Jair Bolsonaro in central Florida on Friday

The Independent UK

Brazil says it's ready to seek extradition of Bolsonaro ally

A high-ranking Brazilian security official who flew to the U.S. just before a riot that some some have called an attempted coup must return within three days or his country willl request his extradition, Brazil’s justice minister said Friday

The Independent UK

The eerie parallels between January 6 and the chaos unleashed by fans of the 'Trump of the Tropics'

Wearing shirts in the green and yellow of Brazil's flag, a crowd of thousands shouted "the time has come" as they marched on congress. What unfolded next was an eerily familiar spectacle that has drawn comparisons to America's January 6 attack.

ABC News

Editorial: Brazil’s insurrection was etched with America’s Jan. 6 template

Discerning the inspiration for a moment of infamy can be ridiculously simple. The audacious attack by supporters of Brazil’s far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro on government buildings in the capital looked every bit as chaotic and destructive as the infamous Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught on the U.S. Capitol. The toxic mix…

Chicago Tribune

Congress ramps up pressure to kick out Bolsonaro as US bides time

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats added to pressure on President Joe Biden to kick Jair Bolsonaro out of the country, even as U.S. officials stick to a wait-and-see approach in hopes that the former Brazilian president will make good on a promise to return home on his own.

Tribune News Service

Brazil police find draft decree in ex-minister's house to revert election -source

Brazilian police found a draft decree in the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro's justice minister that appears to be a proposal to interfere in the result of the October election he lost, two people familiar with the investigation said on Thursday.

Reuters

Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from Brazilian security forces after rampage

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government mob ransack the seat of power in Brasilia, and promised to weed out hardcore supporters of his predecessor.

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Al Jazeera

Democratic lawmakers urge Biden to revoke Bolsonaro’s US visa

The former Brazilian president has taken up residence in Florida, leading to an outcry from House Democrats.

France 24

Brazil's January 6th? Pro-Bolsonaro rioters inspired by Trump movement

What do the backers of Brazil's ransacking of official buildings stand for? Jair Bolsonaro's backers were inspired by the 2021 storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters. In both cases, it started with unfounded claims of election fraud long before the vote and ended in violence. We ask…

Foreign Affairs

How Brazil Can Prevent an Authoritarian Resurgence

A robust civil society can stop the far right.

Reuters

Revoke Bolsonaro's visa, 41 U.S. Democrats urge Biden administration

Forty-one Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday to cooperate with Brazil's investigation into violent protests in Brasilia and revoke any U.S. visas held by former President Jair Bolsonaro.

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Reuters

Brazil's Lula predicts policies in place within 100 days, reassures markets

Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that he plans to have policies ready within 100 days so the country "runs at normal speed" again and told financial markets they should not worry about his Workers Party government.

WEKU

Democrats push for Bolsonaro to be booted from the U.S. as Brazil investigates riots

Brazil is widening its investigations into how thousands of supporters of former president ransacked government buildings. But with Jair Bolsonaro still in Florida, Democratic lawmakers want him out.

Tribune News Service

Eduardo Porter: First the US, then Brazil. Where next?

There is something pathetic about the gangs of crazed supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro that stormed Brazil’s congressional building, presidential offices and Supreme Court on Sunday. Congress was not even in session. The mutineers were late: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had been inaugurated a week before.

France 24

Brazil riots: The face of a deeply divided nation

On Sunday January 8 in Brazil, over 1,500 supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro were arrested after they stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace in the capital Brasilia. Authorities have issued arrest warrants for two former senior officials, including one who used to be Bolsonaro's justice minister…

The Guardian - UK

How a far right assault on Brazil’s democracy failed

The effort to overturn the election of the Brazilian president was thwarted but the attack has shaken an already divided country, reports Tom Phillips

Reuters

Bolsonaro party boss says violent Brasilia protesters will be expelled

The leader of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro's political party said on Wednesday that any member identified in videos taking part in the ransacking of government buildings on Sunday would be immediately expelled from the party.

Reuters

Exclusive-U.S. and Brazil lawmakers seek to cooperate on investigation of Brasilia riots

Aides to U.S. lawmakers from the Jan. 6 committee have engaged in early talks to cooperate with Brazilian lawmakers looking to investigate the storming of the capital Brasilia by protesters urging a military coup to overthrow the president, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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