Bolsonaro Convicted of Plotting Coup

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The most prominent events this week: the former Brazilian President Gear Bolsonaro is convicted To plan a coup, the Argentine President Javier Miley party suffers Loss of major electionsThe Mexicans and Ecuadorians, the directors win the praise Venice Film Festival.

In the Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday, the judges arrived at a majority of the former president’s right -wing president, Gear Bolsonaro, and seven partners to attempted the coup in the wake of the country’s elections for 2022.

The case is determined by a panel of five judges. By noon on Thursday, four judges voted to condemn Bolsonaro on all five charges related to his efforts to stay in office. One sound to exempt it. After they announced their voices, the judges began to discuss the rulings of the defendants late Thursday.

The case has captured observers in Brazil and abroad. She represented a prominent moment not only in the country’s democratic history, but also in its recently strained relationship with the United States.

Bolsonaro, who was for a second term, lost the 2022 presidential elections for left -wing president Luiz Inosio Lula da Silva. Brazil Prosecutor argued that repeated hints of fraud in Bolsonaro in this vote – and holding his meetings with senior military leaders on how to stick to power – comment on a plot to undermine Brazilian democracy. Polsonaro supporters who claimed that the election fraud had violently stormed the Brazil government complex in January 2023.

The Supreme Court opened the case in April based on the recommended charges of an investigation into the federal police. Seven of the close Bolsonaro allies, and many military officers, are the defendants in the case; All eight denies the charges against them.

Brazil witnessed many coups during its history, and the military dictatorship of the country between 1964 and 1985.

According to the documents submitted by the Brazilian Federal Police as part of the case, some Bolsonaro’s allies planned to assassinate Lula, his colleague in running, and the Supreme Court judge Alexander de Mora.

The shooter went as much as he took a position to kill Molois in December 2022, but he partially aborted the task because the movements of Mawais did not happen as expected on that day, according to the documents. Morris oversees the trial of Bolsonaro.

Although the Brazilian policy is sharply polarized, if it had not been defeated Polsonaro with only a slim margin – the majority of the Brazilians believe that Bolsonaro participated in the planning of a coup: 52 percent, compared to 36 per cent who said he did not do so, Keast’s opinion poll found last month.

US President Donald Trump, the ally of Bolsonaro, called on the trial against the former president as “a charming chase.” The Trump administration cited this when a tariff was imposed on Brazilian goods, as well as sanctions on some Brazilian Supreme Court judges. Although Lula said he was ready to engage in a dialogue on some concerns of the United States, he stressed that the Brazilian judiciary’s authority over the trial is not implemented and the issue of national sovereignty.

The trial of Bolsonaro was noticeable because it was part of the extensive efforts of the Brazilian authorities to confront what they consider anti -democratic messages on social media. The issue was cited by Polsonaro’s publication on the Internet for wrong information to discredit electronic voting machines in the country.

The Brazilian electoral authorities, at the time, led by Morais, were aggressive with orders to remove content related to the 2022 elections. Critics say the efforts of justice were very heavy and lacking transparency.

Some Brazilians who are now opposing Bolsonaro-including the judge who voted for his exemption on Wednesday, Luiz Fox-that the former president should have been tried by the Supreme Court from 11 penis instead of the Five Committee. Such paintings deal with some criminal cases in order to move through the cash of the court faster.

Brazil record newspaper, Fulha de S. PauloHe also called for the experience of 11 judges. But on Wednesday, his editorial board wrote that “the evidence in this trial is strong and sufficient to characterize a criminal conspiracy” and that Fox was mistaken in the “basic” decision of the trial. “The impunity will be catastrophic on the Brazilian democracy,” the Board of Directors wrote.

Although Trump and Polsonaro, each of them rejected their losses in the elections in 2020 and 2022, respectively, subsequent events led the two leaders to a major legal and political destinies. Democratic scholars take knowledge.

Harvard University Professor Stephen Levitsky, author of the book ” How Democrats dieHe traveled to Brazil last month and appeared in one of the largest interview programs in the country, Roda Fifa.

“Both presidents have broken the rule of Cardinal democracy,” Levitsky said of Trump and Polsonaro. But the American institutions “failed one by one after the other after the attempted coup Donald Trump.” Meanwhile, the Brazilian judiciary rose. “

Tuesday, September 16: Foreign ministers meet in Mirosor in Brazilia.

Friday, September 19: The United Nations Human Rights Council discusses Nicaragua.

Miller Warning. The mid -term elections in Argentina next month will be a major test for President Javier Millie. On Sunday, a preview was faced in elections for the Local Legislative Council for the Buenos Aires Province. The Freedom Party in the Milei achieved a bad performance, losing a larger margin than what most opinion polls expected.

The opposition Peronion won 47 percent of the votes, compared to 34 percent of freedom. Buenos Aires County is the Birone stronghold, so it is not an ideal measure for the country, but the results still indicate voters’ dissatisfaction with Milei. The elections strengthened the position of Governor of Buenos Aires Axel Kisilov, a leftist, in the battle of leadership for the Berunites.

In October, the share of national legislators who are advanced and its allies in October will define Miley’s authority to implement some of the remaining policy goals, such as reforming pensions. His term ended in 2027.

Chinese foreign direct investment in Brazil. A new report from the Business Council in China Brazil last week showed that the direct Chinese foreign investment (FDI) in Brazil is more than twice between 2023 and 2024. The Brazil increased the emerging economy as Chinese companies invested the most amount of money last year. (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia previously surpassed.)

If the first half of 2025 is any indicator, then the Chinese foreign investment in Brazil is scheduled to rise again.

Support in Chinese investment comes after a management has multiplied without relations with Beijing and sought to direct the Chinese economic participation towards some of the goals of local policy, especially green energy. Electricity projects have received the largest investment. The following oil came, followed by the auto sector.

Director Anna Kristina Parajan is presented with the Orizzonti Best Scensplay Award for Hedra ((IvyAt the 82nd Venice Festival in Venice in Venice, Italy, on September 6.

Director Anna Kristina Parajan is presented with the Orizzonti Best Scensplay Award for Hedra ((IvyAt the 82nd Venice Festival in Venice in Venice, Italy, on September 6.PASCAL Le Segretain/Getty Images

Venice Film Phelss. New films by two directors in Latin America won prizes at the Venice Film Festival last week. Both were in the festival prospects section, which focuses on emerging directors and international films.

To get the best scenario in this section, Anna Christina Parajan won Ecuador by drama Ivyand She slowly escaped why a woman in her thirties seeks to communicate with a young boy in a incubator group. Like two Barragán films, which also won praise, Ivy Young actors who have not been professionally trained.

The Best Film Award went in the Horizons Section On the road By Mexican director David Babylos, who explores strange relationships in the world of long truck drivers. Truck drivers are the backbone of the economy in the industrial zone in northern Mexico, but they rarely focus on a large budget cinema; Also, the hidden ways that sex and sex play there.

The Mexican actor Diego Luna, one of the film’s producers, said that he returns life to “places that we are not aware of.”

Last week, El Salvador became the latest country in Latin America to announce new measures aimed at reintegrating returning immigrants.

The two countries across the region expanded these plans after the semi -existing closure of the asylum process on the borders of the United States and Mexico and increased the US deportation during the Trump era; Brazil officials, Guatemala and Mexico have all announced new efforts in recent months.

Since Trump took office in January, many immigrants who were traveling towards the United States returned, but they did not cross the southern border to their countries of origin, according to a mixed immigration center published in May. The study also found that some immigrants were continuing in third countries or described themselves as their way.

The countries that call policy for returnees in general have expressed at least two goals: meeting the humanitarian needs of people and integrating them again into the workforce. These are the pillars of the new plan for El Salvador, designed in partnership with the International Organization for the United Nations Immigration and the Development Bank between Americans as well as private sector representatives.

In Brazil, social workers were appointed to immigrant returnees to obtain their documents in order. Guatemala follows the professions of returnees and create a platform to connect them to jobs in the country. In Honduras, civil society groups requested that the presidential candidates announce their policies related to migrant returns before the November 30 elections.

If the immigrants who lived in the United States gain new work skills there, countries must try to benefit from these, the immigration researcher wrote Anita Isaac last week in The New York Times. She said that the returnees in Guatemala should help build the country’s environmental tourism industry, and that “the loss of America may be the profit of Central America.”