Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro and President
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The president is struggling to handle the political fallout, as he attempts to reconcile international concerns over human rights violations with growing public support for a crackdown on crime.
A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced high-ranking military officials and a federal police officer to up to 24 years in prison for attempting a coup and plotting to kill President
Brazilian police said Friday that there had been several procedural violations by private security companies working at the COP30 climate conference in the city of Belem.
None of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid.