{"id":3566,"date":"2025-09-14T21:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:00:05","slug":"bolsonaro-gets-27-years-in-jail-for-coup-plan-intermediate-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro Gets 27 Years in Jail for Coup Plan &#8211; Intermediate English"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3566\" class=\"elementor elementor-3566\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1518e372 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1518e372\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a0f835c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a0f835c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bolsonaro Gets 27 Years in Jail for Coup Plan - Intermediate English<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fae8b36 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6fae8b36\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court has sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to <strong>27 years and 3 months in prison<\/strong> for attempting to organize a <strong>military coup<\/strong> following his defeat in the 2022 election. The justices concluded that Bolsonaro led a <strong>criminal network<\/strong> that tried to undermine the democratic process between July 2021 and January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main accusations was his involvement in the <strong>January 8, 2023 riots<\/strong>, when his supporters stormed government buildings in Bras\u00edlia. The court also said Bolsonaro actively spread doubt about the electoral system in order to stay in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four of the five Supreme Court judges voted in favor of conviction, saying that Bolsonaro\u2019s actions represented a serious <strong>threat to democracy<\/strong>. The ruling has been described as a turning point for Brazilian politics, as it is the first time a former president has been punished for attempting to subvert democratic institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro denied all charges, and his defense team announced plans to appeal. 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The justices concluded that Bolsonaro led a criminal network that tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intermediate-english","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easyenglishdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}