BRASILIA, Brazil >> Brazil’s Supreme Court today convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a failed conspiracy to overturn the 2022 Brazilian election in a coup plot that included disbanding courts, empowering the military and assassinating the president-elect.

Four of the five justices weighing the case voted to convict Bolsonaro and seven co-conspirators, including his running mate, defense minister and navy commander, in a forceful rebuke by one of the very institutions the men sought to overthrow.

Bolsonaro, 70, was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, though his lawyers are likely to request house arrest because of his health problems.

The conviction is a landmark ruling for Latin America’s largest nation. In at least 15 coups and coup attempts with links

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