The Latest Breaking News from Alexandre de Moraes

A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice has ordered the transfer of former President Jair Bolsonaro to a larger cell in the Papuda Penitentiary Complex

Justice Alexandre de Moraes and his wife had been under Global Magnitsky sanctions after conviction of ex-president

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was taken into custody on November 22 after it was determined there was a “high risk” of him attempting to flee to a foreign embassy. The arrest took place as the Brazilian supreme court was analysing Bolsonaro’s final appeal against a 27-year prison sentence for…

The former president remains under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, but according to local media, the court has ordered his transfer to prison as a precautionary measure and to maintain public order after a vigil was announced outside, amid suspicions that he may have attempted to escape.

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced high-ranking military officials and a federal police officer to up to 24 years in prison for attempting a coup and plotting to kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

South American leftist Lula takes indirect swipes at Trump in speech and warns that global threat of ‘anti-democratic forces’ persists

The U.S. government has sanctioned the wife of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes

Brazil has a long and tragic history of military intervention in politics. Too often, the country’s armed forces have made themselves arbiters of what the country’s government could or could not do.

Alexandre Padilha’s father fled dictatorship for the US – now the health chief’s family is a target of Trump’s bully tactics