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How to Stop a Dictator: Brazil Convicts Bolsonaro

Rodrigo Durão, journalist with Brasil de Fato, joins the show to discuss Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s coup plot conviction. The former far-right President and seven of his accomplices were found guilty of plotting to overturn the 2022 election results and assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his administration.

Durão discusses the “groundbreaking” conviction and how the Brazilian Supreme Court’s refusal to “bow to the pressure” from Trump serves as a message to other powerful nations on how to deal with a would-be dictator.

Despite Trump imposing the world’s highest tariffs to protect Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Supreme Court refused to give in to “Trump’s blackmail,” says Rodrigo Durão @brasildefato.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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