Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says predecessor Jair Bolsonaro is acknowledging his guilt in a case in which ...

Brazil’s top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that if charges against his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro in a ...

The complaint puts Bolsonaro in the position of being politically persecuted and has the potential to inflame the former ...

The fate of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is largely in the hands of five people. Within the next three weeks, a panel of five of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices ...

Bolsonaro is also accused of mobilizing security forces during the second round of the elections to prevent people from voting for Lula. The prosecutors said the mob attack on the federal ...

Investigators said they even found the draft of a speech Mr. Bolsonaro would give once he announced the takeover. An even darker plot, prosecutors say, involved poisoning Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

Lula has said he will likely not run again next year. Bolsonaro has been banned from running until 2030 after being accused of casting doubts about Brazil's voting system in the last election ...

Part of the plot, which police said Bolsonaro authorized, was to poison Lula and assassinate Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, a longtime Bolsonaro foe.

Late last year, police arrested five alleged conspirators suspected of planning to assassinate the leftist Lula before he took office. Prosecutors have said the Bolsonaro-led plot included plans ...