The Global Story brings you trusted insights from BBC journalists worldwide. We want your ideas, stories and experiences to help us understand and tell #TheGlobalStory. Email us at theglobalstory@bbc.

For a man charged with masterminding an attempted coup and banned from public office, Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro appears remarkably serene about his political future.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, is acknowledging his guilt in a case in which he's accused of plotting a coup to stay in power after his 2022 electoral defeat by focusing on a campaign for amnesty.

Brazil’s prosecutor-general said that former leader Jair Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as part of an

Measles cases are spiking in West Texas, how China is responding as the U.S. ends funding for pro-democracy groups, and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faces charges over alleged coup plot.

Five of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices will decide in the next three weeks whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others charged by the country’s prosecutor-general with attempting a coup will stand trial.

Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and kill a Supreme Court judge.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged in connection with an alleged coup plot to overturn the results of the 2022 election and keep his opponent from taking power, according to documents filed by prosecutors Tuesday evening.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was charged on Tuesday with a wild plot to poison his rival and stay in office after his 2022 election loss. Included in the alleged plan was a murder spree that involved poisoning the current president,

Brazil’s prosecutor-general alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in a plan to remain in power despite losing to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday denied accusations that he orchestrated a coup to stay in office and said the charges were the result of an authoritarian regime manufacturing “internal enemies.

- Minister of the Supreme Electoral Court Carmen Lucia reads out her vote during the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, Brazil, June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo