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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Feb 19, 2025, 04:09 PM Feb 19

Brazil's former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge.

Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in a plan to remain in power. The alleged plot, he wrote, included a plan to poison Lula and shoot dead Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, a foe of the former president.

“The members of the criminal organization structured a plan at the presidential palace to attack institutions, aiming to bring down the system of the powers and the democratic order, which received the sinister name of ‘Green and Yellow Dagger,’” Gonet wrote in a 272-page indictment. “The plan was conceived and taken to the knowledge of the president, and he agreed to it.”

Bolsonaro is often seen in Brazil’s yellow-and-green national soccer jersey and the colors have become associated with his political movement.

https://apnews.com/article/bolsonaro-charges-formal-accusations-1751e6b6060ccfcc92d0e6d453650e0d

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Brazil's former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 19 OP
This administration is fully capable cilla4progress Feb 19 #1

cilla4progress

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1. This administration is fully capable
Wed Feb 19, 2025, 04:23 PM
Feb 19

of same!

Will be more surprised if it doesn't happen here, than it it does.

Of course, they already got to Ivana!

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