Brazil’s federal police have arrested Gen. Walter Braga Netto, a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet, in connection with an alleged coup plot, the Supreme Court said in a statement.

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Brazilian police arrested the country's former defence minister, Walter Braga Netto, on Saturday as part of ongoing investigations into a suspected coup plot. Braga Netto, who served under former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro,

In Brazil, authorities have arrested a military general and close ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro as part of the criminal investigation into an attempted coup to overturn the results of ...

The arrest of a four-star general in Brazil over the weekend shows courts are ready to play hardball with those accused of plotting to violently overturn election results, breaking with the impunity that shadowed nearly a century of military coups.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro continues to improve after surgery, but there is as yet no date scheduled for his release from the hospital, according to the presidential spokesman.

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