Brazil’s Bolsonaro was convicted but the military appetite for a coup lingers

<p>Armed forces academies teach troops that military control would be better for the country, historians and experts say</p><p>Hours after supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/jair-bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazils-presidential-palace-and-supreme-court">ransacked Brasília on 8 January 2023</a>, three electricity pylons were brought down in different locations, between 1,000 miles and 1,800 miles away from Brazil’s capital.</p><p>In the following days, 21 more towers were toppled, all using the same method: bolts were removed from the base, and <a href="https://agenciasportlight.com.br/index.php/2024/04/24/documentos-revelam-metodos-de-sabotadores-profissionais-em-ataques-contra-torres-de-energia/">supporting steel cables were cut</a>. The perpetrators <a href="https://unicamp.br/unicamp/noticias/2023/01/24/sistema-de-energia-eletrica-esta-em-estado-de-alerta-apos-ataques/">knew exactly which power lines to sever</a> to cause the most harm to the electricity supply.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/brazil-bolsonaro-convicted-threat-coup">Continue reading...</a>