Person

Jair Bolsonaro

b. 1955 · 20th century

Jair Bolsonaro is a Brazilian right-wing politician and former army captain who was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2022. His presidency was marked by conflict with the courts and the press, rising deforestation in the Amazon and a contested response to the COVID-19 pandemic. After he lost the 2022 election to Lula, his supporters stormed government buildings in Brasília, and in 2025 the Supreme Court convicted him of plotting a coup.

Jair Bolsonaro — Image: Isac Nóbrega/PR · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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New Republic (Brazil)

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Jair Bolsonaro. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/jair-bolsonaro
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