From left to right, first line: Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Mauricio Macri (Argentina), Enrique Peña Nieto (México), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Rodrigo Chávez (Costa Rica), Álvaro Uribe (Colombia). Second line: Jeanine Áñez (Bolivia), Lenin Moreno (Ecuador), Juan Orlando Hernández (Honduras), Dina Boluarte (Peru), Martín Vizcarra (Peru), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela). All have faced legal troubles. Photo illustration by Jhasua Razo/CNN
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro – who was this week convicted of plotting to overturn his country’s 2022 election and sentenced to more than 27 years in jail – is far from being the first Latin American leader to run into legal trouble.
In Peru, no fewer than four former presidents are currently serving time in Lima’s Barbadillo prison, whi