{"id":45284,"date":"2025-11-24T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45284"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:58:32","slug":"brazil-just-succeeded-where-america-failed-as-coup-plotting-ex-pres-bolsonaro-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/brazil-just-succeeded-where-america-failed-as-coup-plotting-ex-pres-bolsonaro-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed\u2019 as Coup-Plotting Ex-Pres Bolsonaro Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Protesters celebrate the arrest of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro with drinks in front of Bolsonaro\u2019s supporters outside the Brazilian Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia on November 22, 2025, where the ex-president had been transferred earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by Sergio Lima \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro was taken into custody over concerns he might attempt to flee the country after he tampered with his ankle monitor.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Rosane<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 22, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro<\/a>, a right-wing<\/a> ally of US President Donald Trump<\/a>, was arrested in Brazil<\/a> early Saturday morning following concerns he might flee the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolsonaro was under house arrest awaiting the result of his appeal after he was tried and sentenced<\/a> to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup and the assassination of current Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva and other officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBrazil just succeeded where America failed. Bringing a former president who assaulted democracy<\/a> to justice,\u201d filmmaker Petra Costa wrote on social media<\/a>, as The Guardian <\/em>reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazilian Supreme Court<\/a> Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered<\/a> the arrest after discovering Bolsonaro\u2019s ankle monitor had been tampered with at 12:08 am local time Saturday. Bolsonaro\u2019s lawyers said that this was not the case, but Bolsonaro later admitted to taking a soldering iron to the device \u201cout of curiosity\u201d in a video released by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t curiosity, it\u2019s a crime,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0State Deputy to the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro Renata da Silva Souza, on social\u00a0media<\/a>. \u201cBolsonaro is not a victim: He is convicted, ineligible, and is IMPRISONED. Turning this absurdity into a justification is a mockery of Brazilian democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ex-president\u2019s arrest also came the same day that his son Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro had planned a protest<\/a> outside the Brasilia condo where Bolsonaro has been living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Moraes said Bolsonaro\u2019s tampering with his monitor fed his suspicions that he would attempt to flee the country in \u201cthe confusion that would be caused by a demonstration organized by his son,\u201d according to<\/a> The Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe is located about 13 kilometers (8 miles) away from where the United States<\/a> of America embassy lies, in a distance that can be covered in a 15-minute drive,\u201d de Moraes added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, who has sanctioned de Moraes and supports Bolsonaro, reacted to news of the arrest by saying it was \u201ctoo bad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolsonaro was arrested around 6:00 am local time and is now detained in an approximately 130-square-foot room in the federal police headquarters in Brasilia, according to<\/a> Reuters. <\/em>The entire five-judge panel that originally sentenced Bolsonaro will review his detention on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institutional Relations Minister Gleisi Hoffmann was the highest-ranking member of the current government to comment on the detention, according to Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoffmann wrote<\/a> on social media:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pretrial detention of Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> strictly follows the rites of due process of law, overseen by the Federal Supreme Court and the Attorney General\u2019s Office in each stage of the criminal action against the attempted coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in Brazil. The decision by Minister Alexandre de Moraes is grounded in the real risks of flight by the leader of the coup organization, as well as the imminent finality of his conviction for the serving of his sentence. It also rightly takes into account the background of a process marked by violent attempts to coerce the Judiciary, such as the tarifa\u00e7o and the Magnitsky sanctions<\/a>. In a democracy, justice must be upheld.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Brazilians also celebrated the news of Bolsonaro\u2019s arrest, with some uncorking champagne bottles outside police headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe message to Brazil, and to the world, is that crime doesn\u2019t pay,\u201d Reimont Otoni, a Workers\u2019 Party congressman, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Rosane<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protesters celebrate the arrest of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro with drinks in front of Bolsonaro\u2019s supporters outside the Brazilian Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia on November 22, 2025, where the ex-president had been transferred earlier.  (Photo by Sergio Lima \/ AFP via Getty Images) Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro was… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45285,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284\/revisions\/45285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}