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The former Brazilian president and seven close allies are awaiting judgment – and conviction is seen as highly likely

Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 5 Sep 2025 05.00 EDT

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was days away from taking office for his third term as the Brazilian president when soldiers from a special operations unit allegedly discussed the best way to kill him – possibly through poisoning or administering drugs that would trigger “organ failure”.

Investigators would later conclude that the supposed plan to assassinate the president-elect, his vice-president and a supreme court justice was one of many strands of a wider plot designed to keep the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro in power.

At the end of 2022, Lula had just won the elections and was staying at a hotel in the capital, Brasília, while a police officer leaked details of his security apparatus to the special ops.

Meanwhile, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, already responsible for the main cases against Bolsonaro, was allegedly targeted by heavily armed soldiers who took up positions near his home, awaiting the final order to kill him.

According to the federal police and Brazil’s attorney general, the assassination plan was only aborted because a court session was delayed – and, more importantly, the commanders of the armed forces refused to endorse Bolsonaro’s coup plot.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/05/jair-bolsonaro-trial




Bolsonaro ("Trump of the Tropics" ) and Trump





Dinner at Mar-a-Lago. I believe the Bolsonaro son standing next to Ivanka and Jared is Eduardo.