Brazil’s Supreme Court nears convicting Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, the first among 1,390 accused in a January uprising. The judges agreed on guilt but not on the length of his jail term. Six out of eleven judges have voted. Costa Pereira faces charges for attacks on government buildings. The attacks came eight days after Luiz […]
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