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Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court
By Adriano Machado

Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Brasilia


Security forces operate as supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, outside Brazil’s National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, January 8, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

BRASILIA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump.
Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in the most fraught election in a generation last year, announced a federal security intervention in Brasilia lasting until Jan. 31. He blamed Bolsonaro for the invasion, and complained about a lack of security in the capital, saying it had let "fascists" and "fanatics" wreak havoc.

All of the rioters will be identified and punished, Lula said, while pledging to root out the financiers of the movement. Lula was far from the capital, on an official trip to Sao Paulo state.


The sight of thousands of yellow-and-green clad protesters running riot in the capital capped months of tension following the Oct. 30 vote. Bolsonaro, an acolyte of Trump's who has yet to concede defeat, peddled the false claim that Brazil's electronic voting system was prone to fraud, spawning a violent movement of election deniers.


The invasion poses an immediate problem for Lula, who was only inaugurated on Jan. 1 and has pledged to unite a nation torn by Bolsonaro's nationalist populism. Television images showed protesters breaking into the Supreme Court and Congress, chanting slogans and smashing furniture. Local media estimated about 3,000 people were involved.
Bolsonaro, who has barely spoken in public since losing the election, left Brazil for Florida 48 hours before the end of his mandate and was absent from Lula's inauguration.

The violent scenes in Brasilia could amplify the legal risks to Bolsonaro, who has so far not commented on the invasions. The Bolsonaro family lawyer, Frederick Wassef, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Supreme Court was ransacked by the occupiers, according to social media images that showed protesters shattering the windows of the modernist building.
A policeman on horseback was surrounded by shouting demonstrators armed with sticks who knocked him off his mount.
Brasilia Governor Ibaneis Rocha told Reuters that all security forces had been deployed to confront the rioters. He subsequently wrote on Twitter that he had fired his top security official, Anderson Torres, previously Bolsonaro's justice minister.
The U.S. Embassy in Brasilia warned U.S. citizens to avoid the area until further notice.
"Violence has no place in a democracy," Douglas Koneff, the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Brasilia, wrote on Twitter. "We strongly condemn the attacks on the institutions of the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary Powers in Brasilia, which is also an attack on democracy. There is no justification for these acts!"
On Saturday, with rumors of a confrontation brewing, Justice Minister Flávio Dino authorized the deployment of the National Public Security Force. On Sunday, he wrote on Twitter, "this absurd attempt to impose the will by force will not prevail."
Latin American leaders were quick to condemn the scenes.
"All my solidarity with Lula and the people of Brazil," Colombian President Gustavo Petro tweeted. "Fascism decides to conduct a coup."
Chilean President Gabriel Boric said Lula's government has his full support "in the face of this cowardly and vile attack on democracy."
In Washington in 2021, Trump supporters attacked police, broke through barricades and stormed the Capitol in a failed effort to prevent congressional certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
Trump, who has announced a third bid for the presidency, in 2024, had pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, not to certify the vote, and he continues to claim falsely that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread fraud.
In Brasilia there have been at least three accounts of protesters assaulting journalists, according to the Brasilia journalists' union, which cited unconfirmed reports.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...ress-presidential-palace-brasilia-2023-01-08/
 

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Global leaders condemn assault on Brazilian government buildings


Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, outside Brazil’s National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Jan 8 (Reuters) - Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country's Supreme Court and its Congressional building and surrounded the presidential palace in Brasilia. Here are reactions from world leaders:
UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN
"We condemn the attacks on Brazil's Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court today. Using violence to attack democratic institutions is always unacceptable. We join @lulaoficial in urging an immediate end to these actions."

MEXICAN PRESIDENT ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR
"The coup attempt by the Brazilian conservatives urged on by the leadership of oligarchic power, their spokespersons and fanatics, is reprehensible and undemocratic. Lula is not alone, he has the support of the progressive forces of his country, Mexico, the American continent and the world."

WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JAKE SULLIVAN
"The United States condemns any effort to undermine democracy in Brazil. President Biden is following the situation closely and our support for Brazil's democratic institutions is unwavering. Brazil's democracy will not be shaken by violence."

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES SECRETARY GENERAL LUIS ALMAGRO
"We condemn the attack on the institutions in Brasilia, which constitutes a reprehensible action and a direct attack on democracy. These actions are inexcusable and fascist in nature."
EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JOSEP BORRELL
"Appalled by the acts of violence and illegal occupation of Brasilia's government quarter by violent extremists today. Full support to Lula and his government, to Congress and to the Federal Supreme Court. Brazilian democracy will prevail over violence and extremism."
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PORTUGAL'S FOREIGN MINISTER JOAO GOMES CRAVINHO
"Without a doubt, former president Bolsonaro has responsibility. His voice is heard by these anti-democratic demonstrators. It would be very important if he had a message of condemnation in the face of the disorder that is currently happening in Brasilia."
CHILEAN PRESIDENT GABRIEL BORIC
"The Brazilian government has our full support in the face of this cowardly and vile attack on democracy."
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO
"All my solidarity to @LulaOficial and the people of Brazil. Fascism has decided to stage a coup. ... It is urgent for the OAS (Organization of American States) to meet if it wants to continue to live as an institution."
ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ALBERTO FERNANDEZ
"I want to express my rejection of what is happening in Brasilia. Mine and the Argentine people's unconditional support for @LulaOficial in the face of this attempted coup he is facing."
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON
"The will of the Brazilian people and the democratic institutions must be respected! President @LulaOficial can count on France's unwavering support."
UNITED KINGDOM'S AMBASSADOR TO BRAZIL STEPHANIE AL-QAQ
"We condemn the violent scenes of attacks on institutions today in Brasilia. We reaffirm our confidence in the strength of Brazil's democracy and in the smooth functioning of its democratic process."
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO
"We categorically reject the violence generated by Bolsonaro's neo-fascist groups which have assaulted Brazil's democratic institutions. Our support for @LulaOficial and the Brazilian people who will surely mobilize in defense of peace and their president."
URUGUAY'S FOREIGN MINISTRY
"Uruguay condemns the episodes of violence against the institutions in Brazil and calls for respect for the rule of law, democracy and its government."
PERU'S FOREIGN MINISTRY
"The government of Peru energetically condemns the assault on the headquarters of congress, the presidency and the supreme court of Brazil and any attempt to disregard the legitimacy of the October 2022 elections. Our solidarity with President Lula and Brazilian democracy."
ECUADOREAN PRESIDENT GUILLERMO LASSO
"I condemn the actions of disrespect and vandalism perpetrated against democratic institutions in Brasilia, they attack democratic order and citizen security. I express my and my government's backing for the legal regime of @LulaOficial."
BOLIVIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY
"We reject the violent actions in recent hours against the democratic institutions of the Federal Republic of Brazil and reiterate our support to our brothers in Brazil and their President Lula da Silva, democratically elected at the polls."
SPANISH PRIME MINISTER PEDRO SANCHEZ
"All my support to President @LulaOficial and to the free and democratically elected institutions of the Brazilian people. We categorically condemn the assault on the Brazilian Congress and make a call for the immediate return to democratic normality."
CUBAN PRESIDENT MIGUEL DIAZ-CANEL
"We energetically condemn the violent and undemocratic acts in Brazil aimed at creating chaos and disrespecting the popular will which resulted in the election of President Lula."

https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...ers-assault-brazil-govt-buildings-2023-01-08/
 
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Brazilian politics become a copy of American politics basically. The invasion of American Congress happened in January, 6th. Two years later, the Brazilian version of Capitol's invasion happened in January, 8th.

Bolsonaro is a puppet of Trump in Brazil and Lula is a puppet of Biden.

So, the perspective for the next 4 years in Brazil is that Lula's government will be similar to that of Biden, a decadent old man who seems doesnt know what he is doing, shakes invisible hands, etc. Lula is aged also.
Lula likely will be a long lame duck.
 

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Lula orders ‘federal intervention’ against rioters
The newly-inaugurated Brazilian president has declared a state of emergency after former leader's supporters overran government buildings

Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with police as they storm the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 8, 2023 © AP / Eraldo Peres

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has declared a state of emergency in the Federal District of Brasilia after thousands of supporters of his right-wing predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, overran Congress, the Presidential Palace, the Supreme Court, and the Planalto Palace.

The leftist leader, inaugurated just last week, gave the order on Sunday, appointing justice minister Ricardo Garcia Capelli to lead the ‘federal intervention’. Lula’s order gives Capelli the power to ask both civil and military bodies for “the necessary means to achieve the object of the intervention.”

The scope of the order, which expires at the end of the month, is limited to Brasilia’s Federal District, and its stated aim is to “end the serious compromising of public order in the State in the Federal District, marked by acts of violence and invasion of public buildings.”

To achieve that goal, Capelli may call upon “the financial, technological, structural, and human resources of the Federal District” – including, but not limited to, the military and police – as needed.



Promising to make those responsible for the chaos “pay with the force of the law” in a speech broadcast to his social networks, Lula pledged to get to the bottom of “who are the financiers” of the swarm of protesters – most outfitted in matching attire with the colors of the Brazilian flag – who rushed through a barricade and into the government buildings.

He denounced the demonstrators as “vandals and fascists,” blaming Bolsonaro for filling their heads with extremism. The former leader’s supporters have been staging chaotic demonstrations since he lost a close election to his leftist rival in October, blocking roads, setting vehicles on fire, and at one point even surrounding a military facility to try to convince the soldiers inside to rise up and restore Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro left Brazil several days before the traditional handoff ceremony installing Lula in the presidency rather than appear to legitimize the leftist’s win by showing up, maintaining that his defeat had been unfair even as he condemned the violent protests that had resulted. Lula blamed what he described as the day’s “unprecedented” violence on his nemesis, declaring “this is also the responsibilities of him and of the parties that belong to him.”

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World leaders condemn Brazil violence as US lawmakers call for Bolsonaro extradition

Joe Biden says the situation in Brazil is ‘outrageous’ as presidents across South American denounce attack on democracy

Police confront supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasília

Police confront supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in Brasília after Congress was stormed. Photograph: Andre Borges/EPA



Joe Biden said the situation in Brazil was “outrageous” after supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the country’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court on Sunday, with some senior US lawmakers calling for the far-right figure to be extradited from the US.
Biden’s words of condemnation were echoed by world leaders across the globe, and by some of Brazil’s closest neighbours.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in a closely fought election last year, announced a federal security intervention in Brasília lasting until 31 January after capital security forces initially were overwhelmed by the invaders.

“I condemn the assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil. Brazil’s democratic institutions have our full support and the will of the Brazilian people must not be undermined,” Biden said on Twitter.
US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, tweeted that “using violence to attack democratic institutions is always unacceptable”, and called for an immediate end to the invasion of Brazil’s democratic institutions.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US condemns any effort to undermine democracy in Brazil. “President Biden is following the situation closely and our support for Brazil’s democratic institutions is unwavering. Brazil’s democracy will not be shaken by violence,” Sullivan said.
Bolsonaro flew out of Brazil on the eve of Lula’s inauguration and is currently in Florida. Many in the US – and across the world – saw echoes of the US Capitol invasion of 2021 in the actions of the Bolsonaro supporters and called for the former president to be extradited.
Joaquin Castro, a member of the US House foreign affairs committee, told CNN that Bolsonaro had used “the Trump playbook to inspire domestic terrorists to try and take over the government”.
“Right now Bolsonaro is in Florida … he should be extradited to Brazil … The United States should not be a refuge for this authoritarian who has inspired domestic terrorism in Brazil”, he said.
US House Democrat and progressive figure, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said: “Nearly two years to the day the US Capitol was attacked by fascists, we see fascist movements abroad attempt to do the same in Brazil.”

She called for the US to “cease granting refuge to Bolsonaro in Florida”.


Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, called the storming of Brazil’s institutions a “cowardly and vile attack on democracy”.
Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, said, “fascism has decided to stage a coup … It is urgent for the OAS [Organization of American States] to meet if it wants to continue to live as an institution.”
Argentinian president Alberto Fernandez tweeted that he committed his country’s “unconditional support for @LulaOficial in the face of this attempted coup he is facing”.
Venezuela president Nicola Maduro said he rejects “the violence generated by Bolsonaro’s neo-fascist groups which have assaulted Brazil’s democratic institutions. Our support for @LulaOficial and the Brazilian people who will surely mobilize in defense of peace and their president.”
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called Brazil “a great democratic country’ and said he was confident the “will of the Brazilian people and the country’s institutions” would be respected.
Portugal’s foreign minister, Joao Gomes, claimed much of the responsibility rested with Bolsonaro and said “it would be very important if he had a message of condemnation in the face of the disorder that is currently happening in Brasília.”
Human Right Watch blamed the attack on a “years-long campaign by former president Jair Bolsonaro and his allies to undermine democratic principles and spread baseless claims of electoral fraud”. The organisation released a statement calling the storming “an abhorrent attack on Brazil’s democratic institutions by people who are seeking to deny the right of Brazilians to vote for and elect the leaders of their choice, including by urging military intervention”.
European Council president Charles Michel said that Lula had been “democratically elected by millions of Brazilians through fair and free elections,” and condemned “the assault on the democratic institutions of Brazil.
France’s Emmanuel Macron said that Lula could count on his country’s “unwavering support,” and that the “will of the Brazilian people and the democratic institutions must be respected!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...drwZc2ML6_iMCY4-7sekr1lBnCMsB7THEnmfd0voY#_=_
 

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wht is vote share of Bolsonaro and Silva party in ele? Did bol runaway frm Brazil or US visit?
Lula won with 51% against 49% of Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro flied out of Brazil some days before the President's possession cerimony, for he recused to pass the President's strip to Lula. So who given the strip to Lula was a group of 'people's diversity representants', that is, a black, an indigenous, a woman and a gay.
 

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Brazilian politics become a copy of American politics basically. The invasion of American Congress happened in January, 6th. Two years later, the Brazilian version of Capitol's invasion happened in January, 8th.

Bolsonaro is a puppet of Trump in Brazil and Lula is a puppet of Biden.

So, the perspective for the next 4 years in Brazil is that Lula's government will be similar to that of Biden, a decadent old man who seems doesnt know what he is doing, shakes invisible hands, etc. Lula is aged also.
Lula likely will be a long lame duck.
There;s a chance this playbook will repeat itself - or an attempt to repeat it - in India too. When in power neither Trump nor Bolsonaro did anything to bury their opponents and/or their machinations even when they had a chance. The protest then will be used as a casus belli to consolidate control and create a moral panic about 'far right' supporters unwilling to accept a fraudulent election result.
 

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So, the perspective for the next 4 years in Brazil is that Lula's government will be similar to that of Biden, a decadent old man who seems doesnt know what he is doing, shakes invisible hands, etc. Lula is aged also.
Lula likely will be a long lame duck.
He also won elections from prison like Berlusconi of Italy.
 

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He also won elections from prison like Berlusconi of Italy.
He was jailed, but the Ministers of High Court, which were appointed during the Lula or Dilma govs, both from Workers Party, voted for the suspection of Judge Sergio Moro, who sentenced Lula, so the criminal process was nullified and Lula freed to run the elections.
 

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There;s a chance this playbook will repeat itself - or an attempt to repeat it - in India too. When in power neither Trump nor Bolsonaro did anything to bury their opponents and/or their machinations even when they had a chance. The protest then will be used as a casus belli to consolidate control and create a moral panic about 'far right' supporters unwilling to accept a fraudulent election result.
I dont doubt this. Brazil, India and South Africa are BRICS's members and the democratic ones, which become them more open to foreign interference, unlike Russia and China, which have more closed regimes, so the USA has a strong interest in unstabilize these countries to prevent the born of a new multipolar world order and keep its hegemony.
 

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I dont doubt this. Brazil, India and South Africa are BRICS's members and the democratic ones, which become them more open to foreign interference, unlike Russia and China, which have more closed regimes, so the USA has a strong interest in unstabilize these countries to prevent the born of a new multipolar world order and keep its hegemony.
You said it right.

Mr. Modi- India
Netanyahu- Israel
Bolsonaro- Brazil
Orban- Hungary
Putin- Russia

Are all targets of the Global Left, they have mentioned this explicitly from their blue-tick twitter handles.

Netanyahu is back, seems like Bolsonaro will also be back.
 

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Lula won with 51% against 49% of Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro flied out of Brazil some days before the President's possession cerimony, for he recused to pass the President's strip to Lula. So who given the strip to Lula was a group of 'people's diversity representants', that is, a black, an indigenous, a woman and a gay.
This is very close fight and even slightest of frauds could have swing votes in anyone's favour. People are bound to be unhappy with such a close verdict.
 

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incidentally even in israel palestinian loving leftisis were protesting against Netanyahu. Globally left is the new weapon of the choice for power to be(who knows they might be courting chinese money for the cause too), for taking care of their perceived irritants in power.
 

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Leftist was to take government with arms, to uproot the political, but they cry "facism" when it happens to them.
leftism of today is a ruse, another tool of powerful elites. on hindsight, it was always employed as a tool by elites for causing and controlling dissent. remember Marxism was introduced to indian prisoners by britishers themselves.
 

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Brazilian politics become a copy of American politics basically. The invasion of American Congress happened in January, 6th. Two years later, the Brazilian version of Capitol's invasion happened in January, 8th.

Bolsonaro is a puppet of Trump in Brazil and Lula is a puppet of Biden.

So, the perspective for the next 4 years in Brazil is that Lula's government will be similar to that of Biden, a decadent old man who seems doesnt know what he is doing, shakes invisible hands, etc. Lula is aged also.
Lula likely will be a long lame duck.
Find a way to get out of the American stranglehold, even if you need to suspend democracy for sometime. Find a non-puppet candidate or your entire economy could be shorted by the US deep state.
 

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Find a way to get out of the American stranglehold, even if you need to suspend democracy for sometime. Find a non-puppet candidate or your entire economy could be shorted by the US deep state.
Historically 'dictators' in Latin America tend to be quite pro-US. I'm not quite sure how to reconcile the current development there since I've heard equally compelling explanations for why Lula might not be quite the pro-west shill despite him being an avowed leftist with strong establishment support.
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