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News Articles: Jair Bolsonaro

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves Federal Police headquarters after giving testimony over the Jan. 8 attacks, in Brasilia, April 26.

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  • World

Brazil police raid ex-President Bolsonaro's home in COVID vaccine card investigation

Police raided former President Jair Bolsonaro's home, investigating claims of suspected efforts to falsify vaccination records to travel to the U.S. He denies any role in allegedly forging documents.

May 03, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
The jewelry with diamonds gifted to former President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro by the Saudi government, which was seized by customs officials, is seen at São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, in Guarulhos, Brazil, on Tuesday.

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  • World

Gifted jewelry from Saudi Arabia entangles Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro

A scandal is unfolding in Brazil involving millions of dollars worth of jewels, the Saudi government and former President Jair Bolsonaro.

March 15, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Brazil's ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro, pictured here at a Nov. 1 press conference, has been staying in Orlando, Fla., as his home country investigates his supporters' attack on government buildings.

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  • World

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a 6-month visa to remain in the U.S.

The ex-president left Brazil for Florida a week before his supporters rioted in Brasilia. Analysts say his special diplomatic visa expired Tuesday, leaving U.S. authorities to decide his legal status.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, looks on after speaking from his official residence at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 1, 2022.

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  • Latin America

Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for riot

Brazil's Supreme Court granted the request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video he posted on Facebook two days after the riot.

January 14, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, stand on the roof of the National Congress building after they stormed it, in Brasília, Brazil, on Sunday.

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  • World

Democrats push for Bolsonaro to be booted from the U.S. as Brazil investigates riots

Brazil is widening its investigations into how thousands of supporters of former president ransacked government buildings. But with Jair Bolsonaro still in Florida, Democratic lawmakers want him out.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Damage is seen at Brazil's Congress one day after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília. The attack was planned by far-right groups on social media, according to Brazilian media and analysts.

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  • Latin America

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media — and by Trump allies

The similarities are deep: In addition to aiming to subvert an election, some of the same U.S. voices that amplify former President Donald Trump are echoing Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

January 10, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell,
  • Shannon Bond,
  • and 1 more
Brazil's Supreme Court building is seen through a broken window of the Planalto presidential building in Brasília on Monday, a day after supporters of Brazil's far-right ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro, invaded the Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court.

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  • World

Bolsonaro goes to hospital in Florida as Brazil cracks down on riots by his supporters

Brazilian authorities arrested over 1,000 people following Sunday's assault on top government buildings by supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, who's taken temporary residence in the U.S.

January 09, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn and
  • Alex Leff
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, pictured here at an election debate in October, left his country for Florida two days before his term ended.

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  • World

Why Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida (and what Biden can do about it)

Brazil's far-right ex-president was lying low in Orlando, Fla., as a mob of his supporters stormed government buildings this weekend. Analysts say the move insulates him from possible legal jeopardy.

January 09, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Fans arrive to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil round of 16 match between Brazil and Chile at Estadio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on June 28, 2014.

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  • Sports

Why some Brazilians won't be wearing their national soccer colors for the World Cup

Brazilians who voted against President Jair Bolsonaro are torn about sporting the yellow soccer jersey after the far-right leader and his supporters adopted the shirt.

November 24, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro waves at supporters after voting in the presidential runoff election, on his way to Galeao airport in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.

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  • World

Brazil's Bolsonaro avoids conceding defeat, but begins transition to winner Lula

Almost two days after Sunday's vote, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro finally made his first statement about the election but did not concede that he lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

November 01, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks after winning the presidential runoff election in São Paulo on Sunday.

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  • World

How an ex-president who had been jailed rose back to power over Brazil's far right

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a stunning political comeback by defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. But he could face a short honeymoon — and a long four years in office.

October 31, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
The two candidates in Brazil's presidential elections campaign leading up to a runoff election. Left: President Jair Bolsonaro in Guarulhos on Saturday. Right: Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Rio de Janeiro State on Oct. 11.

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  • World

What to know about Brazil's election as Bolsonaro faces Lula, with major world impacts

Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to vote in a presidential election that is testing the world's fourth-largest democracy and could have a critical impact on the fight against climate change.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Dr. Gabriela Kucharski is the secretary of health for Toledo, a city in southwestern Brazil. Amid the worst of the pandemic, she convinced Pfizer to choose Toledo for an experiment that would provide free COVID vaccines for every resident.

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  • Global Health

How this Brazilian doc got nearly every person in her city to take a COVID vaccine

Dr. Gabriela Kucharski's city of Toledo had virtually no vaccines. And it's a bastion of support for Brazil's vaccine skeptic president. Here's why that didn't matter.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
GPB News NPR

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  • World

Defying preelection polls, a divided Brazil heads to a presidential runoff

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left-wing former president, won more votes than right-wing incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, but not enough to win outright in the 11-candidate race.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
A large fire in a recently deforested area of the Amazon rainforest along Highway BR-319 in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 25.

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  • World

Brazil's election could determine the fate of the Amazon after surging deforestation

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection in Sunday's vote, forest clearing and wildfires have surged in the Amazon.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
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