Fuente: International Business Times
Dubbed the 'Trump of the Tropics,' Jair Bolsonaro has been the target of multiple investigations since his turbulent years as president of Latin America's biggest democracy AFP Brazil's Supreme Court started weighing Tuesday whether to put far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro on trial for allegedly masterminding an attempted coup after losing elections in 2022. The case arises from alleged efforts to unseat leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to whom Bolsonaro lost a vote in October that year by a razor-thin margin. The 70-year-old was charged in February with crimes including overseeing a "coup d'etat," the "attempted violent abolition of the democratic state of law" and "armed criminal organization.
