Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, with a judge claiming he was intent on escaping just days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The 70-year-old politician was taken to the headquarters of the country’s federal police in the capital, Brasilia, from his house arrest.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw the case, said in his ruling that Bolsonaro’s ankle monitor, which he has worn since July 18 for being deemed a flight risk, was violated at 0:08 a.m of Saturday.
It’s also a country with a large evangelical base that saw what Trump did to the US and thought they should do the same in Brazil. And they did, even the insurrection part and the anti-vax craze. The current president is anti-west and favours relations with Russia, being the tankie that he is. Their social media is teeming with russian propaganda and I notice a very anti-ukranian stance with brazilians who moved to europe, claiming Russia is fighting nazis. It’s pretty much far from a sane country.
So they traded one shitty stance for another. Great.