Yoon's upheld sentence links Seoul to Lima, Brasília and Bogotá in a widening global reckoning with presidential impunity, and what it means for Latin Ameri
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Key Facts
—Seoul South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld Yoon Suk-yeol’s seven-year prison sentence for his 2024 martial-law bid.
—Peru Four former Peruvian presidents are currently serving time in Lima’s Barbadillo prison, with a fifth facing decades more.
—Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years for plotting a coup after his 2022 election defeat.
South Korea jails a martial-law aide, the US guts its election board and Brazil keeps an ex-president jailed - a global test of…
EDITORIAL. The sentencing of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison stands as a…
It marks the first time in country’s history that an ex-president has been convicted of a crime and sentenced
Sentence comes shortly after a majority of justices voted to convict the former Brazilian leader on five charges.
Brazil's former leader has exhausted his appeals and will start his prison term at a police station in Brasilia.
His trial gripped the country, tarnishing the legacy of a politician credited by many for saving the country from becoming a…
