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Plot to Kill Lula, Alckmin, and Justice Moraes Traced to Top General
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El ConfidencialRetired Army General Mário Fernandes admitted to being the author of a plan to assassinate current Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022 within the...
Plot to Kill Lula, Alckmin, and Justice Moraes Traced to Top General
In July 2025, official court records revealed that General Mário Fernandes—once a senior figure in former president Jair Bolsonaro’s government—admitted to writing a plan. The plan called for the kidnapping and murder of Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva, Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. He said he created and printed […]
Mário Fernandes, former adviser to the Presidency during the government of the ultra-rightist Jair Bolsonaro, admitted to having drafted a plan to assassinate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva before he took power in 2023. Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Judge Alexandre de Moraes were also targeted. Retired Army General Mário Fernandes admitted to being the author of a plan to assassinate current Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022,…
That plan also included kidnapping or killing the current vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, and the judge of the Supreme Alexandre de Moraes. More information: Jair Bolsonaro, forced to wear an electronic anklet to prevent his escape from Brazil while being tried for coup
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General Mário Fernandes acknowledged authoritarianity, but he pointed out that the plan “Green and Yellow Punhal” was just a “digitalised thought”.
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