Fugitive Bolsonaro ally, convicted in 2022 coup attempt, is detained by ICE

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Alexandre Ramagem was convicted in absentia by Brazil’s Supreme Court last year in the plot to reverse the right-wing populist’s election loss.

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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, left, and congressman Alexandre Ramagem embrace during Ramagem's 2024 campaign for mayor of Rio de Janeiro. (Bruna Prado/AP)

BRASÍLIA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a fugitive former Brazilian intelligence chief and congressman Monday in Florida on alleged immigration violations, Brazilian authorities said, closing an international manhunt that stretched for six months across two continents.