Former Brazilian Army Chief Marco Antonio Freire Gomes admitted Friday before Federal Police investigators that he had been approached by then-President Jair ... Bolsonaro and the military top ...

The former commanders of Brazil's Army and Air Force told police investigators that President Jair Bolsonaro summoned them twice to meetings to discuss a possible coup d'état after his election ...

Top Brazilian military leaders declared to police that former President Jair Bolsonaro presented them a plan to reverse the results of the 2022 election he lost, but they refused and warned him ...

Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro replaced his minister ... was part of the “military wing” of Bolsonaro’s government — the former military brass making up nearly a third of the cabinet.

Boosted under the government of fascistic former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), the so-called “civic-military schools” have the fundamental aim of ending supposed leftist indoctrination ...

President Jair Bolsonaro had planned to celebrate the anniversary of the start of military rule on Sunday. The far-right president's decision had provoked widespread condemnation. He defended the ...

Protests and insurrections in pursuit of a military coup are common methods of instigation. For example, early in 2023, supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro seized the National ...

Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis since ... protest at attempts by Mr Bolsonaro to exert undue control over the military. Mr Bolsonaro's popularity has plummeted over his response ...