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Hundreds of supporters of Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro broke through police barricades and stormed into Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court on Sunday
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In a speech that lasted just over two minutes, the far-right incumbent neither acknowledged defeat, nor congratulated Lula on his victory
A country cannot survive in isolation, particularly given that leaders of rightwing parties have ascended in countries around the world
The far-right president has not spoken publicly or on his beloved social media accounts since the result was announced, raising fears over how he will react, after months of alleging fraud in the electoral system and a conspiracy against him
Burning tires, as well as vehicles such as trucks, cars and vans were blocking several points in the central-western agricultural state of Mato Grosso, which largely supports Bolsonaro
Seeking to make a spectacular comeback, ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva failed to garner the votes needed to avoid a runoff
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Opposition parties and ANC ‘factions’ will attempt to use the crisis to their advantage
The state of politics and geopolitics has been exacerbated, rather than stabilised, by the coronavirus crisis
Leaders need to grapple with the wicked problem of how to ease out
of the lockdown
The Brazilian president broke self-isolation, despite being exposed to Covid-19, and has encouraged his supporters to do the same, while his health minister battles to contain the crisis
Last week the Brazilian health minister warned that the country’s public health system was likely to collapse under the strain of the coronavirus by the end of April. Although this was fear-inducing to most people in Brazil, that country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, decided to take selfies with supporters outside the presidency. This, despite the fact […]
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Our history has shown that the exercise of democratic reason can shake power from below
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