Boric calls the actions of coup leaders in Brazil a vile attack on democracy; see repercussion

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The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, condemned the invasion at different points of the Esplanada dos Ministérios, in Brasília, this Sunday afternoon (8), by coup demonstrators supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

“The Brazilian government has our full support in the face of this cowardly and vile attack on democracy,” Boric said via Twitter.

The US Embassy issued an alert to US citizens in Brasilia to avoid the invaded region.

The coup plotters invaded areas of the National Congress, the Planalto and the STF (Federal Supreme Court), spread acts of vandalism and depredation and clashed with the Military Police.

The acts bear similarities to an event that took place in the United States which, coincidentally, completed two years this week. Occurred on January 6, 2021, the invasion of the Capitol was triggered by a speech by then-President Donald Trump in Washington, leading protesters to invade the US Legislative building, in an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the election of 2020 —the republican and his followers maintain to this day the lying speech that the election was defrauded.

The biggest recent attack on American democracy was classified by many as an attempted coup d’état and became the target of a series of investigations, by the Department of Justice, the FBI and Congress itself. The attack resulted in the death of five people, including a policeman.

Since then, the US federal police have arrested more than 950 people – the investigation is considered the largest in the history of the body – and opened cases against 940, according to the Program on Extremism, a group at George Washington University. More than half of the defendants, 482, confessed their guilt, and another 44 were considered so by the Justice.

The action promoted by supporters of former President Bolsonaro this Sunday takes place a week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), preceded by anti-democratic acts inflated by the coup-mongering rhetoric of the former president in the electoral period.

President Lula is not in Brasília this weekend — he traveled to São Paulo and was visiting Araraquara, in the interior of São Paulo, to accompany victims of the rains.

Those responsible may be punished in court based on the Anti-Terrorism Law, legislation that Bolsonaristas themselves tried to toughen up in order to punish left-wing protesters.

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