The Supreme Court of Brazil is sending the notorious, fascist dictator, Jair Bolsonaro, to prison for 27 years and 3 months for trying to lead a coup after he lost the presidential election in 2022.

Bolsonaro, who had been lauded by many Western political leaders and capitalist rags like the Wall Street Journal, lead an unprecedented assault on Brazil’s biodiverse regions and accelerated the genocide against Brazil’s indigenous peoples for the profit of multinational corporations.

Backed by a cadre of evangelical fanatics, racists and homophobes, Bolsonaro tried to dismantle the remaining protections for the besieged ecosystems and communities of his country. He emboldened loggers, ranchers and mining interests with his fascist rhetoric, many of whom have threatened Indigenous peoples with violence.

One example was in the state of Amapá, where gold miners stabbed an Indigenous leader to death in a protected reserve. Other reports of attacks on Indigenous people, women, environmental activists and the LGBTQ community mounted and deforestation of the Amazon increased by 67% in the first seven months of his reign.

Bolsonaro’s sentencing is a bright spot in a world where the powerful seem to get away with their heinous crimes against the biosphere and the most vulnerable among us. Crimes exemplified by the Epstein files and the genocide in Gaza. So, if this causes any of them to shudder, even for a moment, then this is a very good day.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025