
Bolsonaro Imprisoned: Brazil’s Right Faces Leadership Void
Ahead of the 2026 election, the jailing of the former president has left Brazil’s conservative bloc without a unifying figure.

Ahead of the 2026 election, the jailing of the former president has left Brazil’s conservative bloc without a unifying figure.

The former head of state had been under house arrest since August, and on Saturday one of his lawyers announced that he had been taken into custody.

Prison guards took the former Brazilian president from his home into medical care, where he remains under house arrest.

The United States says it “will respond accordingly” to the sentence.

Donald Trump has called the trial against Jair Bolsonaro a politically motivated witch hunt.

A prosecutor has asked Brazil’s Supreme Court to find Bolsonaro guilty of plotting a coup.

Post-Marxist historiography has insisted on the role of the outside world as the driving force behind the 1964 coup, but in truth their genesis was national and nationalist.

Hungary’s break with communism remains an instructive case study for transitioning regimes worldwide.

A slow-motion economic meltdown in Argentina has handed the initiative to eccentric libertarian populist Javier Milei who romped home first in primaries over the weekend.

Federal police, on May 5th, searched Bolsonaro’s home, seized his cell phone, and arrested six of his former collaborators.