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EXPLAINER: Roots of the Brazilian capital's chaotic uprising

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Thousands of Brazilians who support former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the Supreme Court, presidential palace and Congress on Jan. 8 in an episode that closely resembled the U.S.

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro resurfaces in Florida to say he won’t leave politics

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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has reemerged from a self-imposed exile in Florida to tell supporters he’s not done. At a Tuesday night event in

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Brazil government acts against Bolsonaro backers, new protest fizzles

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Brazilian federal prosecutors on Wednesday requested the investigation of three congressional allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly inciting the worst attack on the country’s democratic institutions in decades.

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BRASÍLIA, Brazil - Less than two weeks on the job, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces an incredible challenge: the aftermath of the most serious assault on the country's institutions since its return to democracy from dictatorship in the 1980s.

Now his government is widening its investigation of how thousands of supporters of the former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, rampaged through the Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court buildings on Sunday in Brasília.

Echoing the ex-leader's false claims, the rioters accused Lula of stealing the election and hoped to create enough chaos that the military would intervene and reinstate Bolsonaro, which did not happen. There's no evidence of fraud in last year's two rounds of election won by Lula.

Since the weekend, demonstrations have sprung up in parts of the country sending a message of support for the Lula government. The authorities have braced for the possibility of another "mega-protest" against the government that hasn't materialized.

Here are some of the latest developments and what could happen next.

What's happening to those detained after the riots?

Officials say more than 1,000 people detained since Sunday's riots by Bolsonaro supporters remain in custody. Hundreds are held at a gym on federal police grounds in Brasília. Detainees, who were allowed to keep their cellphones, have posted videos complaining about the conditions and overcrowding in the gym. More than 600 people were released for humanitarian reasons, most of them older people, parents with children and people with poor health conditions. Hundreds of others were formally charged and sent to jail. According to officials, those arrested could face charges ranging from trespassing to damaging national patrimony to insurrection.

Pro-Lula demonstrators in São Paulo and other cities in Brazil have taken to the streets, many chanting "no amnesty" for the rioters.

Are any officials held responsible?

The authorities have arrested one ex-security official, Col. Fábio Augusto Vieira, who was fired as the head of the military police in Brasília. And they issued an arrest warrant for another: the former head of Brasília's police force, Anderson Torres.

A close ally of the former leader, Torres was Bolsonaro's justice minister before being appointed to lead the police. Torres wasn't in Brazil on Sunday - but vacationing in Florida. Ricardo Cappelli, the federal official appointed head of security since Sunday, told CNN's Portuguese-language affiliate in Brazil that Torres allegedly sabotaged Brasília's police force by gutting its leadership before leaving the country. Torres has called the accusations of collusion " absurd." In a tweet on Tuesday, he said he'll return to Brazil and face justice.

President Lula fumed during a meeting this week with governors at the damaged presidential building that the state police acted negligently - even accusing some officials of colluding with the rioters.

Now federal prosecutors are seeking investigation of three congressional allies of Bolsonaro for allegedly helping incite Sunday's assault in the capital, Reuters reports.

Authorities also say they have identified businessmen around the country who allegedly helped finance the attacks, specifically by chartering buses to bring rioters into Brasília. More than 100 buses went to the capital over the weekend packed with Bolsonaro supporters.

Did authorities know the mob was coming?

Since Bolsonaro's Oct. 30 election defeat, many of his ardent supporters have staged protests, blocking highways and camping out in front of army compounds around the country, calling for the military to take control. Analysts who monitor right-wing extremism say their coded messages online made it clear what was coming.

Natalia Viana, of the investigative journalism group Agência Pública, says Bolsonaro followers widely discussed calls to mobilize in the capital in private group chats and openly on social media. Officials had to have seen the communications, she says.

For example, organizers urged people to head to the capital for "Selma's party" - a play on words in Portuguese for a military call to action - among other coded messages in the lead-up to Sunday.

Officials said Wednesday they were blocking access to the main plaza in Brasília where government buildings are as a precaution after a flyer promoting a "mega-protest to retake power" was circulating on social media.

Is Bolsonaro heading back to Brazil?

Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States just days before the Jan. 1 presidential inauguration for Lula. He is reported to be staying at a condo belonging to a supporter near Orlando, Florida. He condemned the "invasions of public buildings" on Twitter hours after the riots began Sunday, and rejected accusations that he had encouraged supporters to carry them out. But this week he reposted a message on Facebook again saying Lula wasn't legitimately elected, then the post was taken down.

On Tuesday, Bolsonaro told the CNN Brazil affiliate that he would return home from Florida earlier than planned but did not say when.

Pressure's growing for him to go soon. More than 40 Democratic lawmakers signed a letter sent to President Biden Thursday, urging the administration to revoke any visa granted to Bolsonaro. The letter also said federal agents should investigate possible financing and organizing that may have occurred on U.S. soil to help carry out the attack on Brazil's government. While the State Department would not confirmed it, the lawmakers and many news reports speculate that Bolsonaro entered the U.S. on a visa for foreign officials.

Bolsonaro narrowly lost his bid for reelection. He still has backing from his conservative party, as well as from some right-wingers in the U.S., including Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, the ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump.

But analysts say Bolsonaro's political future, and that of his far-right movement, was greatly hurt by the Brasília assault. And Lula's immediate political outlook may get a boost as politicians from many sides - and countries - express solidarity in the aftermath of the riots.

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Democrats push for Bolsonaro to be booted from the U.S. as Brazil investigates riots

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Brazil is widening its investigations into how thousands of supporters of former president ransacked government buildings. But with Jair Bolsonaro still in Florida, Democratic lawmakers want him out.

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While this was fairly unbiased, the only spin I saw was asserting the"democrats" were the ones comparing the brazillian riots the one on January 6th 2022.

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Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil, is looking to remain in the U.S. after applying for a six-month tourist visa, according to reports.

Reuters reported that Bolsonaro's attorney confirmed that the visa was being sought, as a growing number of Democrats in Washington called to have him extradited to Brazil, where he faces accusations of inciting a capitol attack reminiscent of what took place in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6.

Bolsonaro was originally scheduled to return to Brazil in late January, but the attack on the Brazilian capitol by thousands of his supporters appears to have changed his plans - he originally planned to leave the U.S. sooner than later, crediting the possibility of his hospitalization in early January for complications related to his 2018 stabbing.
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Bolsonaro's attorney, Felipe Alexandre, told Reuters the U.S. received his client's application on Friday, adding that his client will remain here until a decision is made on his application.

"He would like to take some time off, clear his head, and enjoy being a tourist in the United States for a few months before deciding what his next step will be," Alexandre told Reuters. "Whether or not he will use the full six months will be up to him and whatever strategy we agree to embark on based on his plans as they develop."

Brazilian authorities detained over 1,500 rioters who participated in an attack on the country's Congress, Presidential Palace and Supreme court on Jan. 8, 2023.
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That day, thousands of Bolsonaro's supporters participated in the riot, though the former president denied any involvement in inciting them.

Democrats compared the attack to the pro-Trump storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and like former President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro refused to concede to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and did not attend his inauguration.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva has named him personally responsible for the attack, though no formal investigation or charges have been made.

"He didn't just provoke this or encourage this-he's still encouraging this via social media," Da Silva said following the attacks.

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Brazil's former President Bolsonaro applies for U.S. tourist visa: reports

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Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil, is looking to remain in the U.S. after applying for a six-month tourist visa, according to reports. Reuters reported that Bolsonaro's attorney confirmed that the visa was being sought, as a growing number of Democrats in Washington called to have him extradited to Brazil, where he faces accusations of inciting a capitol attack reminiscent of what took place in Washington, D.C.

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While this isn't leaning left or right, it is takign a more scientific approach to why insurrections like brazil happen at all by conducting neurological experiments meant to resemble the brain during a riot. I just found it to be an interesting approach to the "why" of the riots

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Why do people take part in insurrections, like the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the storming of the presidential residence in Sri Lanka, or January's sacking of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace in Brazil?

Sometimes, that question is answered by pointing to precipitating events-elections and their results, protests that descend into anger, or the speeches of powerful demagogues. On other occasions, we blame insurrections on prejudices, or bigotries-racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, white nationalism.

I'd suggest that we think about insurrections differently-because they originate in our brains.

Indeed, I'd suggest that the insurrections in Washington, D.C. and Brasilia are due to overactivity in the limbic system in the brain-a primitive part of the brain that evolved millions of years ago, which we share with rats and cats and lizards and other creatures.

Social scientists used to focus on rational actions. But in recent years we have made great advances in understanding what goes on in the brain when we think politically. The biology of radical politics is no exception.

Scholars have explored why people rebel as long as there has been political science. In the early 1970s, one sociologist hypothesized that the reason was poverty, or " relative deprivation." Political scientists and economists, using sophisticated mathematical models, also tried to explain rebellion, but found it hard to come up with a rational explanation. Very few people, the math showed, had any personal incentive to risk life and limb for the rather abstract benefits of overthrowing a government.

From a rational point of view, rebellions seem pointless. A political scientist even coined the phrase " the paradox of revolution."

Enter neuroscience.

Since the early 2000s we have been able to look at what happens inside our heads when we think. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans which measure changing blood flow to brain cells, we can now see which parts of the brain get activated when we engage in various activities, like shopping, thinking about sex, and feeling remorse.

I started out as a biologist before becoming a political scientist. Together, those two different academic fields offer a similar lesson: To prevent rebellions and insurrections, we should avoid angry and polarized debate.

This perspective has also entered into the realm of political analysis-finally putting the "science" in political science. Of course, fMRI isn't useful for studying rebellions in real time; there's no way to scan people's brains at the moment they storm the palace. But we can design experiments that observe how people who share insurrectionist views react to hate-speech and views that are articulated by politicians on the far right. Presenting subjects with statements about vulnerable minority groups during some brain scan studies, and showing them photos of political candidates they didn't agree with during others, researchers could literally see what happened in would-be insurrectionists' brains.

When neurologist Giovanna Zamboni and colleagues conducted such an experiment a little over a decade ago, they found that a part of the brain known as the ventral striatum, which is associated with the limbic system, was activated when individuals who were identified by psychological tests as "radicals" were exposed to hate-speech statements or other intolerant assertions about other groups or minorities. These studies have been replicated in recent years and their findings confirmed and refined.

That the ventral striatum was activated is remarkable. This part of the brain is one of the oldest, in evolutionary terms. It is what makes animals respond positively to simple rewards in social situations and to negative stimuli in dangerous moments, such as fear that they might be attacked. The ventral striatum is linked with amygdala, the fight-and-flight center in the brain. When people hear statements about-or see images of-groups or individuals that they fear, the brain reacts as if it is attacked.

In contrast, study subjects who, based on personality tests, were identified as "moderate" or "conservative" used parts of the brain that only humans have evolved, such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for planning and working memory and associated with listening, speaking, and reasoning. In another study, from 2011, young people with far-right views showed greater activation of amygdala, indicating that they were less likely to reflect on political statements and more likely to revert to fight-or-flight mode.

The most interesting part of this body of research: Generally, brains respond differently to politics than to policy. Scans show that when people think about politics-as in the rough and tumble partisan struggle-the fight-and-flight amygdala gets activated. But when people are exposed to questions about policy, they use the more advanced parts of the brain. In fMRI studies dating as far back as 2009, scientists found that the dorsolateral frontal cortex lit up in people exposed to arguments about economic policy.

I started out as a biologist before becoming a political scientist. Together, those two different academic fields offer a similar lesson: To prevent rebellions and insurrections, we should avoid angry and polarized debate. And when possible, we should avoid political hot-buttons and instead talk about the policy issues that affect our lives.

Biological research suggests the advantages of such an approach go beyond de-polarizing the public square. When we really listen to each other in debates about policy and related politics, we learn new things. And learning new things may make us less likely to develop degenerative conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Humans are the product of 8 million years of evolution. We have the capacity to use the powers with which we have been endowed, namely to learn by being attentive, and through open deliberation. Human evolution hardwired us to process information, and make progress, through listening. But when we engage in hate speech and angry rebellion we revert to an evolutionarily primitive stage.

Neuropolitics shows us a way out of the current polarized debate and into a better future.

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Blame the Brain, Not Bolsonaro, for Brazil's Riots | Essay

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Why do people take part in insurrections, like the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the storming of the presidential residence in Sri Lanka, or January's sacking of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace in Brazil?

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This article took a much more emotion-based approach to covering the story. As opposed to many other articles, it does a good job of describing the destruction and the internal dialogue of a witness to the event. This article is intended to evoke both anger and hope. It also throws a jab at former president Donald Trump by comparing the investigation processes following the brazil and US insurrection riots.

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Masanori Uragami's 1971 painting, "The Bandeirantes yesterday and today," lies defaced in Brazil's Supreme Court building after supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the capital on Jan. 8. (Rafael Vilela for The Washington Post)

BRASÍLIA - Maria Cristina Monteiro was hosting a birthday party last month when she saw the images.

Thousands of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro had stormed Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace in what authorities say was a bid to topple President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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She watched in horror as the mob rampaged through the institutions at the heart of the country's young democracy, smashing glass, slashing paintings, urinating on tapestries, decapitating statues and splintering furniture. She cried.

"We got emotional because it was our home being invaded," said Monteiro, who was settling into her new job as coordinator of the Senate museum before the attack on Jan. 8. "We saw it smashed, broken - and it's not just our house. It is the house of all the Brazilian population."

The next day, she went to work - but it was clear her job had changed. Ordinarily, she and her colleagues focus on preserving the roughly3,000 pieces of art in the Senate museum, some of which have decomposed over the body's 200-year history. Now, their focus was restoring what was damaged.

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A month later, they're making progress. Teams have restored dozens of damaged objects, including door handles in the shape of the coat of arms of the republic, bronze busts of key historical figures and the Alfredo Ceschiatti sculpture "A Justica" outside the Supreme Court.

But there are challenges. Some works were vandalized beyond repair. The entrance to the presidential office is still missing glass. The Supreme Court lost 31 pieces and a Brazilian flag. Restoring some items will require the construction of new contraptions to avoid wrecking them further.

Still, those who have been working long days to restore or rebuild the nation's patrimony say they're determined to restore as much as possible - no matter what it takes or costs.

Inside Brazil's Supreme Court, conservation teams pick up the pieces

Asked if there's anything that can't be repaired, Gilcy Rodrigues de Azevedo, head of the preservation service for the Chamber of Deputies, smiled.

"Never ask a restorer if he or she won't try," she said.

The urgency of the effort mirrors that of Brazilian authorities investigating the attack, who have conducted several raids to round up those suspected of responsibility, including its financiers and the security and political officials whose alleged inaction abetted it.

In contrast to the deliberate pace at whichU.S. authorities have probedthe possible role of President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol - an insurrection that rioters here sought to mimic - Brazilian officials quickly opened an investigation into Bolsonaro, who, like Trump, sought for years to stoke mistrust in the electoral system.

More than 1,400 people have been arrested, including Bolsonaro's former justice minister and the former commander of military police in the federal district. They also include the man authorities allege damaged a 17th-century clock by the French master Balthazar Martinot, leaving it "broken from top to bottom, with cracks, deformations and losses," Brazil's National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institutewrote.

Brazilian rioters damage iconic buildings and historic art

"Our maxim is like the fire department," Azevedo said. "The faster you act, the less damage occurs."

She was drinking coffee at her sister's house when she learned of the attacks.

"I was really scared," she said, wiping tears from her eyes. "I was afraid about the collection that I would take care of, but also afraid about the country."

When Azevedo and her colleagues showed up to work on Jan. 9, they set out to track down and catalogue what had been damaged. Armed with flashlights, they waded through knee-deep water, looking for fragments of broken pieces.

The violence had no rhyme or reason. At the Planalto Palace, where the president works, rioters used a table to build a barricade, but gently placed the two vases that sat atop it on the floor. Elsewhere, vases were shattered, their pieces scattered across several buildings.

Azevedo's team of 15 catalogued 64 pieces that were damaged at the Chamber of Deputies. They have repaired most and are now focused on the roughly 30 percent that were most severely damaged and will be most challenging to repair.

They include vases smashed to smithereens. One option is to put the vases back together using the pieces they have, leaving gaps for the ones that are missing. Another is to fill the gaps with dental ceramics painted with the original pattern.

There are no plans, Azevedo said, to protect the items from potential future attacks.

"They belong to the people," she said. "I cannot hide them for fear. That would be giving the rioters too much honor."

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At the Supreme Court, workers have restored 28 of 114 items on their list. Officials have put some damaged art on display with the aim of ensuring that "this day will never be forgotten."

Monteiro said she considered her team to be relatively fortunate: Only 19 pieces at the Senate museum were damaged. Many have been repaired and put back on display.

"What happened was an attack against democracy," Monteiro said, "so having the pieces back in their places represents for us and for the entire population the resumption of the democratic system."

At a small laboratory near the Senate, workers dressed in white coats and wielding special paints, brushes and bright lights showed off a centuries-old chair from one of the chamber's first buildings. It's one of the pieces they've restored.

But others will require outside help. Emiliano Di Cavalcanti's painting "As Mulatas" suffered seven slashes. A Burle Marx tapestry was torn from the wall and soiled with urine. It will be sent to a shop in São Paulo. A red floor-to-ceiling panel by the sculptor Athos Bulcão, damaged when rioters flung green marbles at it, can be repaired, but restorers need a special clearance to work at the required height.

The attorney general has requested that authorities block roughly $4 million in funds from people and companies suspected of planning and participating in the riots in part to pay for the damages.

The attacks followed fourdifficult years for artists under Bolsonaro. He telegraphed his scorn for their work soon after taking office in 2019 when, in one of his first moves as president, he disbanded the Ministry of Culture and folded it into another ministry.

He took frequent aim at a law that allows sponsors of cultural activities to receive tax deductions. He vetoed bills that wouldhave grantedpandemic aid to cultural programs, casting them as contrary to the public interest. Freedom of expression advocates documented censorship of artists.

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Lula, who took office Jan. 1, restored the Ministry of Culture and put Margareth Menezes, a popular singer from Bahia, in charge. She said Bolsonaro had reassigned civil servants who had been working in culture to other departments. His allies strolled the halls with guns, she said, traumatizing colleagues.

"The attacks [on Jan. 8] show the lack of love for the culture" among his supporters, Menezes told The WashingtonPost, "and the lack of awareness of the meaning of Brazil's history and its artistic legacy."

Ismail Carvalho, who heads a team of four at the Senate museum restoration laboratory, noted an "internal contradiction" in Brazil.

The attacks have provided "evidence that the profession of art conservator and restorer is important," he said. "But it is a profession that is not regulated by Brazilian labor law. This is a struggle of our profession for recognition."

Menezes said she agrees and is looking to change that.

Urbano Villela was at home in Brasília on Jan.8. He watched the attacks on television from a unique vantage point. The 81-year-old artist painted the portraits of Senate presidents hanging in the Senate building.

"I felt concern mixed with sadness seeing that scene," he told The Post. "Regardless of being the artist, every Brazilian should be shocked by that barbarism."

Four of his paintings were damaged and one was stained. Soon after the attacks, Villela's son called Monteiro to ask about the damage. Monteiro had an idea: Might the artist be open to repainting his damaged pieces?

Villela expects to have them completed within a month.

"It never crossed my mind not to do it," he said. "As long as I'm healthy and physically fit, I'm going to do it."

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Brazil races to restore art damaged in capital riot

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BRASÍLIA - Maria Cristina Monteiro was hosting a birthday party last month when she saw the images. Thousands of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro had stormed Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace in what authorities say was a bid to topple President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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The Orlando Sentinel is my local paper from back home, and also covers the same area where former president Bolsonaro resided before and during the January riots. The article covered how local police and local property associations were involved in his presence.

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Ex-Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro is eyeing an early departure from his Orlando-area retreat as he recovers from abdominal pain and faces mounting pressure to leave the United States.

The far-right leader says he is moving up his return to Brazil, originally planned for late January, to seek medical care at home. His country has been gripped in turmoil since his supporters stormed government buildings in scenes reminiscent of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

"I came to spend some time away with my family, but these weren't calm days," Bolsonaro told CNN's Portuguese-language affiliate in Brazil this week. "First, there was this sad episode in Brazil and then my hospitalization."

He didn't say exactly when he would leave.

Bolsonaro arrived in Orlando on Dec. 30, two days before his successor, leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was sworn into office. He's staying at the Reunion West resort community near Disney World and other theme park attractions. His rental home is reportedly owned by supporter Jose Aldo, a retired UFC fighter.

Since his arrival, Bolsonaro has been spotted eating at a KFC restaurant, wandering through a Publix supermarket and signing autographs outside his rental house.

He tweeted on Monday he received medical treatment at an Orlando-area hospital for abdominal pain related to injuries he suffered in a 2018 stabbing attack.

After the Jan. 8 riots in Brazil, multiple Democratic members of the U.S. Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have called for Bolsonaro to be kicked out of the country.

U.S. officials have not received an extradition request from the Brazilian government, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said during a briefing Monday. The State Department declined to comment on Bolsonaro's visa status because the records are confidential.

Anyone who entered the country on an A-1 visa reserved for sitting heads of state would have 30 days to either leave the country or adjust their status with the Department of Homeland Security at the conclusion of their term of office, said State Department spokesman Ned Price, speaking in general terms and not about Bolsonaro's situation.

Bolsonaro's term expired on Jan. 1.

The neighborhood where Bolsonaro is staying has become a pilgrimage site for his supporters. Dozens of people have gathered outside the home hoping to catch a glimpse of the former president.

Reunion West Property Owners Association sent an email to residents of the resort community that it cannot stop people from accessing the home via a sidewalk, which is owned by a community development district, a governmental entity.

The Osceola County Sheriff's Office is not providing security for Bolsonaro and referred questions to the U.S. Secret Service.

As a matter of policy, the U.S. Secret Service typically provides protection for visiting heads of state. Justine M. Whelan, a Secret Service spokeswoman, declined to comment on any possible operations involving Bolsonaro.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. sswisher@orlandosentinel.com

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Brazil's Bolsonaro moves up his departure date from Orlando

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Ex-Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro is eyeing an early departure from his Orlando-area retreat as he recovers from abdominal pain and faces mounting pressure to leave the United States. The far-right leader says he is moving up his return to Brazil, originally planned for late January, to seek medical care at home.

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This article blames the United states for being a poor role model for dealing with believed democratic injustices. The author makes the claim that the January 6th 2022 insurrection in the US paved the way for Brazil to follow in our footsteps and hold their own damaging riot.

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The United States has long been a model for the world, inspiring people in other nations to throw off oppression and follow our path by creating stable, solid, democratic societies based on the rule of law, featuring the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.

So maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise that some Brazilians tried to take a lesson from the U.S. on Sunday. It was the wrong lesson.

Brazil's far-right election deniers rioted in the capital city of Brasilia on behalf of defeated ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, trashing that nation's seat of government and copying the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and coup attempt in which President Donald Trump's lies about his election defeat culminated in the sacking of the Capitol by his supporters.

The violent spectacle marked an ignominious day for the South American nation, but it heaps shame as well on the U.S., which is in peril of relinquishing its role as a beacon of democracy and taking its place among nations for which election results are shaky, and the real decisions are handed over to mobs and the autocrats or shadowy cabals that try to manipulate them.

Two years out from the U.S. insurrection, following the in-depth hearings and report of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the evidence shows that then-President Trump compounded his blatantly false claims that he was denied reelection because of voter fraud with plans to overturn the vote and retain office.

The what-ifs are chilling. Evidence presented to the committee shows that Trump weighed plans to install Justice Department officials who would falsely declare there were voting irregularities. He was asked to consider declaring martial law and collect voting machines. He invited his supporters to Washington and, knowing that many were armed, told them to go to the Capitol. He watched the rioting for more than three hours before telling his supporters to stop. Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were in danger.

In Brazil, Bolsonaro didn't quite deny that he was defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Oct. 30 election, and he agreed to cede the office to his rival on time, on Jan. 1. But he did follow the Trump template by arguing that the vote was rigged or at least unreliable.

Unlike Trump, he wasn't on hand for the attack. He was in Trump's home state of Florida.

But those are cosmetic differences. It's as if Brazil's rioters thought, "Well, if North Americans can believe what they want despite the facts, and act on it, why shouldn't we?"

So far, despite the House committee findings, and the prosecution of nearly 1,000 people, neither Trump nor any of his team has been held to answer for the Jan. 6 attack.

If they are held accountable, perhaps the next set of election deniers and insurrectionists elsewhere in the world will be dissuaded by an American model that, when push comes to shove, holds perpetrators to the rule of law.

And if not, maybe the U.S. will once again be the world's most imitated nation. But not in a good way.

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©2023 Los Angeles Times. Visit at latimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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This Instagram post conveys most of the basic information found in other news articles covering the subject, but the addition of the video allows the gravity of the situation to reach the viewer. Instead of talking in quantity of damages or locations, viewers actually get to see the protests occurring.

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This Twitter account is the first news source I've seen that has shown the protests from the side of the Bolsonaro supporters. This platform has allowed them to spread their beliefs and connect with others that believe in the election fraud.

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This tweet shows the far-right Americans in support of the Brazil insurrection. Similar to the page posted above, but on the American side.

I have seen so many people who are supporting the riots which is immensely contrary to every other news source I have seen. Most posts are written in opinion and not in fact.

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The people have had enough! #BrazilProtest #BrazilProtests #crookedLula #brazil #vivabrazil #fakegovernment 👉👇 https://t.co/oR69J2zlST #DoNotConcede

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Brazil in CHAOS as Anti-Lula Protestors STORM Government Buildings!!!

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The people have had enough! #BrazilProtest #BrazilProtests #crookedLula #brazil #vivabrazil #fakegovernment 👉👇 https://t.co/oR69J2zlST #DoNotConcede pic.twitter.com/1xKmmzMk1q
— BIGbadwolf🇺🇸Buck Fiden!🇺🇸 (@45BigBadWolf) January 9, 2023

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Brazil in CHAOS as Anti-Lula Protestors STORM Government Buildings!!!

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✅Join me and take Field of Greens! Visit: https://fieldofgreens.com/ and use promo code TURLEYTALKS for 15% off your first order. And another 10% off when yo...

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The people have had enough! #BrazilProtest #BrazilProtests #crookedLula #brazil #vivabrazil #fakegovernment 👉👇 https://t.co/oR69J2zlST #DoNotConcede

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Brazil in CHAOS as Anti-Lula Protestors STORM Government Buildings!!!

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✅Join me and take Field of Greens! Visit: https://fieldofgreens.com/ and use promo code TURLEYTALKS for 15% off your first order. And another 10% off when yo...