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Brazil's former President Bolsonaro to wear ankle monitor (www.dw.com)

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Brazil's supreme court has ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to wear an ankle monitor.

The decision came as the former president's home and party headquarters in Brasilia were searched on Friday.

Members of Bolsonaro's right-wing Liberal Party said he was also ordered to stop using social media and end communications with diplomats.

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 39 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I would say "and THAT is how you do it, America"

But I have no faith in this sticking. Mr. Pockets is made of Teflon.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean to their credit they made it way farther into the judicial process than we ever did with Trump.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

You'd be surprised at how hard Latin America can go on their corrupt presidents. Peru is a good example, with many ex-presidents in jail or in exile cause they'd go to jail if they ever went back home. One even shot himself (kinda sorta on live TV too!) to avoid incarceration. 🙃

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I wouldn’t be so sure. They drug Lula out of his house in the dead of night in his underpants and imprisoned him for corruption previously. It now seems that the arrest was for more political rather than criminal reasons, but it also shows that the Brazilian people have a much larger appetite for imprisoning former presidents than Americans do. I would not be surprised if Bolsonaro sees real jail time.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

They did

And make no mistake Lula is also a crook, he just so happens to be a crook I'm aligned politically with (reformist leftist rather than neofascist)

But that just further proves the Teflon claim:

He did get locked up.

And now he's president again.

Idk how it is in the first world

But over here it's pretty much a known fact that every politician is a Mafioso first and a politician second. When they do get in trouble it's usually because they messed up enough in the political sphere that the other crooks decide to use the apparatus of law to fuck them over. Because if it were about their crimes they'd ALL be behind bars.

[+] marcos@lemmy.world -6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It now seems that the arrest was for more political rather than criminal reasons

That's just false.

They rewrote the law so that the judges that judged were the wrong ones, decided that this invalidated the judgement that already happened, and that no existing judge had the authority to rule over the case. He wasn't deemed non-guilty of anything, no evidence was found wrong, and no crime was corrected.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m not saying he wasn’t guilty, I’m saying he was an operator in a system that was already corrupt rather than doing something unusually criminal. I am no expert, so please correct me if I have misunderstood something.

As I read it, he was found guilty of taking campaign bribes from wealthy oil businesses because it was a requirement for having any chance of getting elected in Brazil. Petrobras had essentially become a criminal organization that was controlling huge numbers of politicians, and their support was a requirement to win elections. Lula seems to have participated in the corrupt system, but it does not seem like he was the person who made it be that way.

When I say his arrest was for political reasons, I mean the embarrassment of him being drug out of his home in his underpants seemed to be more about damaging the reputation of the Workers Party rather than any suggestion that he was the kind of criminal who needed to be taken by a forceful raid. I probably worded my first post a little poorly.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The police, persecution and two independent levels of the Judiciary found him to be the central player on the Petrobras scandal that you talked about (and either way, it was created while he was the president). He was the central player on the scandal of car companies paying him (personally) to avoid paying taxes. He inherited the position of central player on the scandal of construction companies paying bribes.

There were dozens of other crimes. He was right on the middle in most of them. Including the one where he used taxpayer money to bribe representatives and senators.

Cut the bullshit.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

No bullshit, just ignorance. Thank you for the extra information, no need to be rude.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They'd have trouble getting a monitor around mushroom dick's swollen ankles.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

If he stops making newsworth content, the news will be tempted to fill their space with other, less egregious corruption scandals.

So, I don't expect him to go out free, but I really expect him to keep just enough freedom he needs to keep throwing shit around.

[–] stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never thought about leaving Brazil, I never thought about going to an embassy, but the precautionary measures are because of that.

What happened last year then? https://archive.ph/CIveH

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He also said "If Lula give me my passport back I can go to the US and negotiate with Trump", like yeah dude, first Lula didn't took your passport, it was the courts and sure, we believe you're going back after.

[–] hmancuso@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

That’s Bolsonaro’s line of thinking—it plays well with his base, whose average IQ makes a chimp look like Einstein. On the bright side, inmates at "Papuda" (the prison where he's expected to serve his term) are already preparing a warm welcome-home party. What a memorable day that’ll be.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Sucks to suck, fascist.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't he brag about eating a guy on some podcast or something?