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Security & Strategic Review - October 2025
BRAZIL: Judiciary convicts coup plotters in unprecedented ruling
With over a dozen coup d’états or attempted coups in Brazil’s history, only one has been punished in the country’s courts. On 11 September eight defendants, including former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023), were convicted of participating in a coup plot to help Bolsonaro stay in power after losing the 2022 election. However, the landmark coup trial at the supreme court (STF) played out amid a polarised political climate. Bolsonaro supporters claim he is being unjustly persecuted, while others view the conviction as the proper functioning of democratic checks and balances, with the judiciary doing its job of punishing a planned abuse by an outgoing president who was refusing to accept an election defeat.
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