Brazil almost suffered far-right military coup, police report claims

Senior military figures backed plot to seize power after Bolsonaro's 2022 election defeat, federal documents allege Brazil came within a whisker of a far-right military coup and the assassination of a supreme court judge just days before President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took power in January 2023, a federal police report has claimed. The report about the alleged plot to help the rightwing populist Jair Bolsonaro cling to power was made public on Tuesday, and paints a chilling portrait of how...