A Jan. 6 Moment for Brazil

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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After Jair Bolsonaro lost October’s Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many believed that the threat of violence from the defeated leader’s supporters would recede. They were wrong. Mr. Bolsonaro had spent years sewing doubt and undermining Brazil’s election system, and last week, thousands of rioters stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential offices. What happened — and how did Brazil get here? Guest: Jack Nicas, the Brazil bureau chief for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:03.7	This is a daily.
0:11.3	In Brazil, many believe that once former president Jair Bolsonaro had left office, the threat
0:17.5	of violence from his supporters would recede.
0:21.6	They were wrong.
0:23.2	Today, my colleague, Jack Niggas, on the storming of Brazil's capital.
0:35.9	It's Wednesday, January 11th.
0:42.5	Jack, what was your reaction when you realized that this attack was underway in Brazil?
0:51.3	I think there was a sense of, here we go, because I had been as sad as it sounds been waiting
1:00.1	for this for a long time.
1:02.3	I have been reporting on the anger and the delusion of the right wing movement here in Brazil
1:12.1	for nearly a year and a half.
1:16.2	We had been fearful that something like this was going to happen.
1:20.0	And suddenly, as I watched this live stream on my computer from my home in Rio, it was
1:26.6	unfolding real quickly.
1:28.9	Right.
1:29.9	It's kind of like knowing that something you feared would happen and being right in the
1:33.0	worst possible way.
1:35.2	You had come on the show a couple of months ago and explained this fear of yours, that
1:41.4	violence was in the air around the last Brazilian presidential election.
1:47.2	So just remind us why you were so worried.
1:50.8	That's something like this was about to happen.
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