Nov. Detractors of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro raised glasses of champagne to celebrate his sentence outside the federal police headquarters in Brasilia, where he's under arrest. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro joined in on a government-organized,

Brazil witnessed a historic political moment as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva praised the 27-year prison sentence handed to former president Jair Bolsonaro for his failed coup attempt after the 2022 election.

Bolsonaro is the “first former president to be found guilty of attempting to subvert Latin America ’s largest democracy,” The Washington Post said. His imprisonment was still a “surprise” to “many in the South American nation who doubted he would ever end up behind bars,

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge ordered Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving his 27-year sentence behind bars, deepening a dramatic downfall for the former president who was convicted of plotting a coup after his 2022 election defeat.