Brazil’s federal police have arrested Gen. Walter Braga Netto, a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet, in connection with an alleged coup plot, the Supreme Court said in a statement.

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Gen. Walter Braga Netto was Jair Bolsonaro’s running mate. The arrest was for meddling in an investigation into a plot to stage a coup, the police said.

The arrest of a four-star general in Brazil over the weekend shows courts are ready to play hardball with those accused of plotting to violently overturn election results, breaking with the impunity that shadowed nearly a century of military coups.

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When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked up the ramp of the Presidential Palace arm in arm with Cacique Raoni, one of Brazil’s most prominent Indigenous leaders, he was carrying high expectations from traditional communities.

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The plot included an operation dubbed “Green and Yellow Dagger”, which called for the the assassination of Lula and other top officials.

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Catholic leaders in Brazil are joining efforts to stop attempts to pardon the conspirators who planned a coup d’état in Brazil at the end of 2022.