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Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoGood news! Congrats Brazil!
- rbanffy 1y agoI have to confess I’m feeling a bit proud to be Brazilian today. There’s still a lot to do, but a strong message was sent.
- brazukadev 1y agoSame. Let's hope the response attack from the north won't be a direct military intervention.
- matheusmoreira 1y ago[flagged]
- stefantalpalaru 1y ago[dead]
- the_real_cher 1y agoWhat happens to him now?
- belter 1y agoAt least 20 years in prison.
- belter 1y agoI did not miss by much...27 years... https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2025/09/11/com-placar-em-2-a-1-stf-retoma-julgamento-da-trama-golpista-com-voto-de-carmen.ghtml https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2025/09/11/com-pla...
- brazukadev 1y agoHe's already in house arrest. He's quite old and sick so I don't think the sentence will change much, he'll spend some time locked in his mansion.
- belter 1y agoBrazil now joins South Korea (1996), Peru (2009), Uruguay (2010), and Bolivia (2022) in proving the rule of law can reach ex-presidents who trample their constitutions. One major democracy still wont test that principle...
- Gualdrapo 1y agoWe (Colombia) barely joined that club a few weeks ago for a few days, but corruption and the dark powers that have ruled this country for a long time kept reigning.
- xenospn 1y agoAnd Israel, ex-president was jailed for rape, and ex-PM jailed for corruption.
- matheusmoreira 1y agoA shame it will not be joining the ranks of El Salvador and Nepal. Brazil is not a democracy. These judge-kings prove it. Trample the constitution? They do it on a daily basis. It was especially noticeable before the 2022 election when they engaged in blatantly unconstitutional political censorship. I saw them do it. Their profoundly destabilizing actions are a major reason why there was a "coup attempt" in the first place. If only the condemned had actually tried. At least they would have gone down fighting and might even have succeeded. Maybe we wouldn't be living under the rule of communist judge-kings. Brazil and democracy in the same sentence is just disgusting. Not a single person voted for these judge-kings. They essentially make up laws as they go along. They walk all over our senate. Our elected representatives are nothing before them. They are so brazen as to raise taxes. They have been grabbing power since at least 2019 and by now have usurped every single function of the government.
- brazukadev 1y agoGreat day!
- betaby 1y agopoll from 2024 shows that 47% believe that Brazil is “under a judicial dictatorship”
- whydontyoushare 1y agoIt's important to know the context. That poll was made the very same days the Brazilian Federal Police performed search warrants against Bolsonaro and his allies. Which was a key step in finding incriminatory evidence now publicly presented and accepted during the current judgment. IMO it's no wonder 47% of respondants said so in that moment. You can also check that this was the opinion of ~82% among those who voted for Bolsonaro at the presidential election 16 months before (49% of votes). And in another question of the same poll, 99% of his voters believe ex-president Bolsonaro was being unjustly persecuted (average was 42%).
- matheusmoreira 1y agoIt is. Polls are not necessary. One needs simply to observe how these judges act to arrive at this conclusion. The judges responsible for finding Bolsonaro guilty went out of their way to censor him and his supporters prior to the 2022 election. Literally unconstitutional censorship. They're the supreme court, nobody can stop them even when they violate the nation's highest laws. It's a literal crime for these judges to engage in political and partidarian actions. Does that stop them? No. After doing literaly everything they could to put Lula in power, they went on to brag about it in public. We defeated Bolsonarism, one of them said. Now these same judges condemn Bolsonaro, just like they condemned thousands of civilians over what was little more than a protest. Leftists once set fire to the exact same buildings but now it's a coup attempt. Among the judges we find such impartial characters as the current president's former lawyer and a proud self-admitted communist. This guy's sentence was pre-determined. He was guilty from the start. This circus was merely for show.
- vitorgrs 1y agoThere was a poll released this week [1]: [...] What is your position on the final outcome of the trial? 49.6% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be convicted 36.9% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be acquitted ¹ https://www.cnt.org.br/pesquisas https://www.cnt.org.br/pesquisas This is one of the few polls that got the 2022 election results right, so pretty big deal.
- slater 1y agoBrazil showing us how it's done. parabéns, brasil!
- jnettome 1y agoFinally! That's what not only Brazil but the whole world needs.
- belter 1y ago[flagged]
- slater 1y agoMaybe set off the flamewar detectors.
- brazukadev 1y agoAlthough I upvoted and am very very happy as a Brazilian, can't deny it is not tech or relevant to HN.
- belter 1y agoIt is highly relevant. This is from the guidelines: On-Topic: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
- xenospn 1y agoHN has always been full MAGA.
- krapp 1y agoNot to be pedantic, but HN can only have been full MAGA since 2016.
- neko_ranger 1y agoyeah, Make Assembly Great Again
- Pedro_Ribeiro 1y agoWhat are you on about? Have you seen the same comment sections I have? This place is clearly majority democrats.
- flykespice 1y agoWhy is this flagged and not the post about Charlie Kirk death? Both are political, incoherent moderation
- alchemical_piss 1y ago[dead]
- hebelehubele 1y agoEveryone knows the US is the most important of them all. Why do other countries even dare to exist when the US does. There are terminally online users whose whole purpose in life is to browse /new and flag new submissions.
- vitorgrs 1y agoMore relevant than Bolsonaro conviction, it's that the generals that were involved in the coup plot, were also convicted. This is the first time that a General get arrested. Brazil had several coups in his history, they never got arrested. The last general that got arrested in Brazil, got arrested for... trying to prevent a coup. Henrique Teixeira Lott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Teixeira_Lott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Teixeira_Lott