BRASILIA, Jan 13 Brazil intensified a mop-up operation Thursday after the weekend ransacking of government buildings in the capital, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
Thousands of demonstrators backing former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed parliament buildings, the presidential office and the supreme court in Brasilia on Jan. 8, several days after his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched his government.
supporters, just like trump s, soon started claiming that it wasn t them at all who attacked the capitol, it was bad guys, it was left-wingers, it was antifa, criminals dressed up like bolsonaro supporters. it wasn t really bolsonaro supporters who did all of this ransacking and he trashed the capitol. the parallels are so tight, it s almost stupid. it almost just seems like reading the same script in a different language. and seeing english language hashtags trending online about the attacks. seeing english language signs at the attack in a country where they speak portuguese, not english. it tells you something about how this may be more than just inspired by what happened here and our own right-wing attempt at a violent government overthrow.