With more than 700 people arrested after supporters of Jair Bolsonaro ransacked Brazil’s seats of government, the authorities began to search for those who funded and aided the rioters.
With more than 700 people arrested after supporters of Jair Bolsonaro ransacked Brazil’s seats of government, the authorities began to search for those who funded and aided the rioters.
Thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded Brazil’s Congress, presidential offices and Supreme Court, denouncing what they falsely claim was a rigged election.
Brazil’s three branches of government were directly targeted. The aftermath includes ransacked government offices, journalists beaten by the mob and damaged modernist works of art.
Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing former president of Brazil, had for months sought to undermine the results of an election that he lost, in much the same manner that Donald J. Trump did after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.