Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by the Supreme Court on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created. The ruling by a panel of five justices on Brazil's Supreme Court made Bolsonaro the first former president in the country's history to be convicted for attacking democracy. "This criminal case is almost a meeting between Brazil and its past, its present and its future," Justice Carmen Lucia said before her vote to convict Bolsonaro, referring to a history checkered with military coups and attempts to overthrow democracy.