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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison after the country’s Supreme Court convicted him of plotting a coup to cling to power following his 2022 election loss. The ruling marked the first time in Brazil’s history that a former president has …

Julia Conley, Common Dreams Brazil on Sunday faced “its own January 6,” one progressive journalist said as thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the presidential offices and the nation’s Congress in Brasilia a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly known as Lula, was sworn …