Brazil: Military Coup Plans Found

The Brazilian magazine "Vega" reported that "the federal police in the country discovered a document containing a detailed plan for a military intervention to prevent the transfer of power after last year's elections on the phone of one of former President Jair Bolsonaro's aides." The magazine cited a federal police report stating that "the plan was found on the phone of Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Sid, who is one of Bolsonaro's personal aides and continued to assist him after his presidential term ended." A report from the police on Friday indicated that the aide also sought legal support for the plan. It added that "based on a partial analysis of the data stored on the aide's phone, documents were gathered to seek legal and judicial support for executing a coup." It remains unclear who devised the plan and whether it ever reached Bolsonaro, who lost the presidential election in October to rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.