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Bolsonaro Blocked From Inauguration
The Wall Street Journal|January 16, 2025
Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is heading for a diplomatic dust-up with President-elect Donald Trump over the country's refusal to give his right-wing predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, permission to attend Trump's inauguration.
- SAMANTHA PEARSON
Bolsonaro Blocked From Inauguration

Bolsonaro has been banned from leaving Brazil after police seized his passport in 2024 as part of a probe into allegations that he plotted a 2022 coup that included plans to assassinate da Silva.

"They're trying to humiliate me...paint me as the world's worst criminal," said Bolsonaro of Brazil's left in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Bolsonaro's lawyers filed a petition with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to allow the former president to attend Trump's inauguration. The request has so far been denied.

This story is from the January 16, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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Bolsonaro Blocked From Inauguration
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