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Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro gets into a car after landing at the airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Sao Paulo on Aug. 23, 2023 for what a close aide described as routine health examinations. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro in hospital for routine exams

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Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media upon arriving at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, June 29, 2023. Brazil’s federal police on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, alleged Bolsonaro received cash from the sale of two luxury watches he received as gifts from Saudi Arabia while in office. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused by ex-aide’s lawyer of ordering sale of jewelry given as official gift

By Carla Bridi - Associated Press

Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro sit in front of a line of military police inside Planalto Palace after storming the official workplace of the president in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Brazil's federal police on Aug. 18, 2023 arrested seven senior military police officers accused of assisting right-wing rioters during the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil arrests 7 senior military police officers over Jan. 8 riots

By Carla Bridi - Associated Press

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro prepares to speak to the press at a restaurant in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 30, 2023, the day that judges ruled him ineligible to run for any political office again until 2030 after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country's electronic voting system. (AP Photo/Thomas Santos, File)

Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fades from the spotlight

By Eléonore Hughes - Associated Press

Brazil's President Lula da Silva addresses the media prior to a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at EU headquarters in Brussels, July 17, 2023. Lula signed a decree July 21, 2023 tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Brazil’s Lula places new restrictions on gun ownership, reversing predecessor’s pro-gun policy

By Carla Bridi - Associated Press

Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 23, 2020. After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's term, according to government satellite data released Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

In Lula’s first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

In a silhouette, Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media upon arrival to the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Bolsonaro is being judged by Supreme Electoral Court judges who are evaluating the case which claims former president abused his power by using government communication channels to promote his campaign and cast unfounded doubts on the country's electronic voting system. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Jair Bolsonaro, former Brazilian president, barred from running for office until 2030

By Mauricio Savarese and Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Fishermen work in the Tapajos River in Alter do Chao, district of Santarem, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Brazil’s Amazon megaprojects threaten Lula’s green ambitions

By Eléonore Hughes - Associated Press

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves Federal Police headquarters after giving testimony over the Jan. 8 attacks in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters trashed the presidential palace, the Supreme Court and Congress one week into President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's third term in office. (AP Photo/Gustavo Morteno)

Bolsonaro home searched as Brazil probes fake vaccine cards

By Carla Bridi and David Biller - Associated Press

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters outside the Liberal Party's headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 30, 2023. Bolsonaro arrived back in Brazil on Thursday after a three-month stay in Florida. (AP Photo/Gustavo Moreno)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro arrives at police base for diamonds probe

By Carla Bridi - Associated Press

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bolsonaro returns to Brazil after 3-month stint in Florida

By Eléonore Hughes and Carla Bridi - Associated Press

This photo provided by Brazil’s Federal Revenue Department shows jewelry seized by customs authorities at Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the week of March 24, 2023. The jewelry is part of an investigation into gifts received by former Brazilian President Jail Bolsonaro during his presidency. (Brazil's Federal Revenue Department via AP)

Bolsonaro’s legal woes deepen with undeclared diamond gifts

By Eleonore Hughes and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro speaks at an event where she was presented as the new leader of PL Women by the Liberal Party (PL), in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Above is live video of her husband, former President Jair Bolsonaro, who attended the event virtually from Florida. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro turns in undeclared jewels to authorities

By Carla Bridi - Associated Press

FILE - Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, storm the the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 8, 2023. Brazil’s federal police searched the home of a nephew of Bolsonaro on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in connection with the Jan. 8 storming of government buildings in the capital by far-right protesters. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Ally claims Bolsonaro plotted coup to block Lula presidency

By Eleonore Hughes - Associated Press

Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, center, meets with supporters outside a vacation home where he is staying near Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. The capital uprising by Bolsonaro's supporters on Jan. 8, 2023 failed to overthrow Brazilian democracy and Bolsonaro flew to Florida, but millions of people in Brazil believe so strongly in Brazilian-style social conservatism that the movement will persist without its namesake, according to academics who study the Bolsonarita movement and members of the movement themselves. (Skyler Swisher/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro applies for 6-month U.S. visitor visa

By David Biller - Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 29, 2022. Bolsonaro said he would only leave the Brazilian presidency when he was dead, jailed or ready for his second term. But Bolsonaro’s Oct. 30 loss to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva set off two months of relative silence for the self-styled standard-bearer of the Brazilian conservative movement. (AP Photo/Bruna Brado, File)

Dems move to strip Bolsonaro of U.S. visa, make him deportable

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and congressional candidate Marina Silva, campaign in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Environmentalists, Indigenous people and voters sympathetic to their causes were important to Lula's narrow victory over former President Jair Bolsonaro. Now Lula is seeking to fulfill campaign pledges he made to them on a wide range of issues, from expanding Indigenous territories to halting a surge in illegal deforestation. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, file)

Brazil’s new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

By Fabiano Maisonnave and Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Protesters, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, clash with police during a protest outside the Planalto Palace building in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Other demonstrators stormed congress and the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Supreme Court agrees to probe Bolsonaro for riot

By David Biller and Carla Bridi - Associated Press

Demonstrators shout slogans against Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro during a protest calling for protection of the nation's democracy in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, the day after Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in the capital. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

‘No amnesty!’: Brazilian protests demand jail for rioters

By David Biller and Felipe Mello - Associated Press

Forensic investigators are framed by a cracked window damaged when supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Brazilian Supreme Court building, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. Bolsonaro supporters who refuse to accept his election defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace Sunday, a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Slow recovery: Political divisions grip Brazil in wake of capital violence

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times