Brazil’s supreme court has ordered the house arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro, tightening restrictions on the hard-right populist in open defiance of Donald Trump as the US leader’s ally stands trial on charges of a coup plot.
The country’s top tribunal issued the ruling on Monday evening on the grounds that Bolsonaro, who was already subject to a curfew, had breached a social media ban imposed by the court last month.
It comes after Trump last week imposed steep trade tariffs on Latin America’s largest economy, following demands by the US president for the criminal proceedings against Bolsonaro to end.
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