Lawyers for Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro have filed an appeal to reduce his prison sentence for attempting a coup ...

Brazil's right is scrambling for a candidate in next year's election after leader Jair Bolsonaro was convicted over a botched coup -- and one of the names that keeps cropping up is that of his wife, ...

Jair Bolsonaro is having a terrible few weeks. On September 29th Tarcísio de Freitas, the right-wing governor of São Paulo, announced that he would not run in next year’s presidential race, and would ...

A woman walks past a banner depicting former President Jair Bolsonaro behind bars, in Sao Paulo, Sept. 12, 2025 (AP photo by Andre Penner). The conviction of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ...

Imagine a country where a hard-right populist president loses an election, urges followers on social media to rise up and storm government buildings, and is eventually handed a 27-year sentence for ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

Brazilians held protests in all 26 states and the Federal District on Sunday against a possible pardon for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, who were convicted of attempting a coup.

“Congress doesn’t work; I’d stage a coup on the same day [I was elected].” That’s how former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, then a mere congressman, put it to a reporter back in 1999 when asked what ...

Brazil had its own January 6 in 2023, when hundreds of former President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace in Brasília. They were protesting ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was diagnosed with skin cancer, his doctor said on Wednesday, adding to the right-wing leader’s health and legal woes just days after he was convicted of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Doctors for former President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that they detected early-stage cancer in skin lesions removed from the 70-year-old politician following his conviction ...