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Brazilian security forces wrested back control of Congress, the presidential palace and the supreme court on Sunday after a flood of former president Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the seat of power, unleashing chaos on the capital Brasilia.  In scenes reminiscent of the 6 January 2021 invasion of the US Capitol…

Security forces confront supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro who invaded Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. — AFPBRASíLIA: Brazilian security forces locked down the area around Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Monday, a day after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the…

B razil’s president has vowed to punish the supporters of ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro who stormed Congress and Brazil’s supreme court building. In scenes echoing the January 6 insurrection in Washington DC by Donald Trump supporters in 2021, far-right rioters also surrounded the presidential palace and sought military intervention to restore…

Reported By:| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA Web Desk |Updated: Jan 09, 2023, 01:04 PM IST Just one week after the leftist Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was inducted into the office as the new leader of the country, the supporters of former right-wing President Jair…

He is known as the “Trump of the Tropics”. Now former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters have emulated Donald Trump’s backers. In an incident which has been compared to the 6 January Capitol Hill attack in the United States, the most radical “Bolsonaristas” stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian authorities said Monday that they were looking into who may have been behind the shocking uprising that sent protesters storming into the nation’s halls of power in a riot that had striking similarities to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In…

Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday, in a grim echo of the US Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump. Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in an…

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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 Sunday, in a dramatic protest against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration last week. A sea of protesters dressed in the green and yellow of…

Indigenous territories and protected areas in Brazil’s Amazon forest see higher and faster rates of deforestation than unprotected areas. That’s according to a new study in Nature that says despite an expansion of protected areas and increased recognition of Indigenous territory across 52 percent of the Brazilian Amazon from 2000…