Bolsonaro showing his electronic ankle monitor at the National Congress. Photograph Source: Senado Federal – CC BY-SA 4.0

On Thursday, one day earlier than planned, the first panel of the Brazilian Supreme Court* issued guilty verdicts for former President Jair Bolsonaro and 7 of his cronies for 5 crimes, including leading an armed criminal organization that attempted to install a military coup after the former president failed to win reelection in 2022.

Here is a list of the convicted co-conspirators with their sentences:

Lieutenant Mauro Cid, Bolsonaro’s former Aide-de-Camp, struck a plea bargain deal and received a sentence of 2 years of house arrest.

Alexandre Ramagem, former Chief of ABIN, Brazil’s National Intelligence Agency, received a sentence of 16 years.

Army General Paulo Sergio Nogueira, Bolsonaro’s former Defense Minister, received a sentence of 19 years.

Retired Army General Augusto Heleno, who served as Aide-de-Camp for military dictatorship hardliner Sylvio Frota in 1978 when he was transferred to a desk job and forced into early retirement after attempting to implement an auto-coup to block the transition back to civilian rule, and oversaw 16 government agencies including intelligence, received a sentence of 21 years. Many also remember Heleno as the general who, while serving under MINUSTAH Chief Juan Gabriel Valdez (Gabriel Boric’s current ambassador to the US), ran........

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