Federal Police: Bolsonaro left Brazil to avoid potential arrest
The Federal Police concluded that former President Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil in late 2022 to avoid potential arrest and to monitor the outcome of the January 8, 2023, coup attempts from abroad.In the final days of his mandate in December 2022, Bolsonaro traveled to the United States, returning only in March 2023.The details are outlined in a Federal Police report indicting Bolsonaro and 36 others on charges of attempting a coup d'état and the violent abolition of democratic rule of law. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur for the coup investigation, lifted the document's secrecy on Tuesday (Nov. 26).Investigators revealed in the report that an escape plan, devised in 2021, outlined steps for the former president to leave Brazil “if his attack on the judiciary a...