US President Donald Trump defended former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after his conviction and 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup. Trump compared Bolsonaro’s trial to his own legal battles, while Bolsonaro, under house arrest, plans to appeal the verdict.
The predicament in which former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro finds himself in after Brazil’s election judges banned him from running for public office for the next eight years is largely of his own making.
The Supreme Court of Brazil has agreed to include former President Jair Bolsonaro in its probe into the riots on January 8 staged by his thousands of his radical supporters in capital Brasilia.
Police said authorities have taken control of three main government buildings -- Supreme Court, presidential palace and Congressional.
Like India, Brazil uses electronic voting and has been doing so since 1996. There have never been complaints of the sort of malfunction the Bolsonaro camp cited in their petition. Voted out of power, Bolsonaro has played to the script the man he is often compared to writing after his loss in the American presidential election. With his right-wing ideology and his dismissal of climate change and environmental imperatives, Bolsonaro is likely to nip at the heels of the government in power, just as Trump has done in America.
Brazil is the country worst hit by COVID-19 outside of the United States in both its death toll and case count
Brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19, second only to the US, both in terms of caseload and death toll.
Bolsonaro made the announcement via social media, where he posted a photo in which he is seen having breakfast at the Alvorada Palace, according to the presidential residence in Brasilia.
"President Bolsonaro is still in good condition, accompanied by the presidency's medical team", the statement said.
Brazil is one of countries hardest hit by the pandemic, second only to the United States, both in terms of death toll and caseload.
