Brazil’s prosecutor general formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro on the evening of Feb. 18 for his alleged involvement in plotting a coup to overturn his 2022 election loss in the Latin American country.
Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet charged Bolsonaro and 33 others, including high-ranking officials in Bolsonaro’s former administration, in the alleged coup to overthrow the country’s democracy. Gonet alleges the coup included a plan to poison Bolsonaro’s successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and shoot dead Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
