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Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab

  • Written by John Joseph Chin, Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
imageSoon to be exchanging blinds with bars?Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images

Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of failed coup plotters to be held to account for their attempted power grab.

Brazil’s Supreme Court found Bolsonaro guilty of being part of an armed...

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