Senior military figures backed plot to seize power after Bolsonaro’s 2022 election defeat, federal documents allegeBrazil came within a whisker of a far-right military coup and the assassination of a supreme court judge just days before President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took power in January 2023, a federal police report has claimed.The report about the alleged plot to help the right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro cling to power was made public on Tuesday, and paints a chilling portrait of how close one of the world’s largest democracies came to being plunged back into authoritarian rule. Continue reading…
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Author : Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Publish date : 2024-11-26 21:00:29
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Brazil almost suffered far-right military coup, police report claims
