Brazil Riots

US Democrats urge Joe Biden to expel Jair Bolsonaro over Brazil riots

Bolsonaro, a close ally of former US president Donald Trump, flew to Florida rather than attend the 1 January inauguration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and had made baseless allegations about the integrity of October elections

Brazil: Rioters plotted openly online, pitched huge 'party'

The post was one of several thinly coded messages circulating on social media ahead of Sunday's violent attack on the capital by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro looking to restore the far-right leader to power

Explained: Why did so many Brazilians rebel against their own government?

Brazil saw three of its key power centres being stormed and vandalised on 8 January. Former President Jair Bolsonaro’s sect of fanatical supporters seem to want him to be the country’s absolute ruler even without the need for elections, following a distorted interpretation of the constitution

Brazil seeks arrest of Bolsonaro ally over Brasilia riots

Anderson Torres was Jair Bolsonaro's justice minister and lately served as security chief in the capital

Jair Bolsonaro eyes return to Brazil as US stay pressures Joe Biden

The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as US lawmakers to expel Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following his supporters' brazen attack on Brazil's capital over the weekend.

Explained: Brazil’s iconic football jersey, its link to far-right Jair Bolsonaro and the 8 January riots

Supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro, donning the iconic yellow and green Brazil jersey, stormed the Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on 8 January. But how is it that the T-shirt of a football-crazy nation has become the symbol of the far-right?

'Prison for Bolsonaro': In Brazil, massive rallies against 8 January riots

Thousands of people staged protests across Brazil condemning Jair Bolsonaro's supporters, who vandalised the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential palace on Sunday. Crowds demanded punishment for the former president

What did pro-Bolsonaro rioters destroy in the Brazilian capital?

The horde of supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro who invaded Brasilia's power centres over the weekend ransacked everything in their path, including priceless works of art

'No amnesty!': Brazilian protests demand jail for rioters

The words are a demand for retribution against supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the Brazil's capital

'...Was hospitalised in Orlando/USA': Brazil's Bolsonaro tweets photo from Florida hospital

Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro tweeted a photo of himself from hospital in the United States on Monday, a day after his supporters drew international condemnation by invading the seat of power in Brasilia.