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Make a turn. Thank you. Thank you! This is hell.

hell.

What the hell happened in Brazil with government buildings in the nation's capital

raided by police our guest today calls neo-fascist and an attempted coup to

overthrow the newly inaugurated presidency and government of

President Lula de Silva. Some are saying it's a copycat action reminiscent of the

January 6th 2021 siege of the January 6th, 2021 siege of the U.S. capital by the far right here in the states.

Except that Brazilian protests didn't happen on January 6th.

It happened on January 8th. It also had fewer participants. It took place when the

government buildings were actually closed and empty, not while the

government was in session as the January 6th insurgency took place here.

And the insurrectionists were happily greeted by military police who seemed to have assisted

in the incursion.

I mean, sure, in both the US and Brazil, those attempting

a coup were on the farthest of the far right who have feasted on rumors and conspiracy theories

for the last several years, and Steve Bannon and his ilk have their fingerprints all over the failed coup in Brazil as well as the one here in the States but there are also aspects of the protest in Brazil that are different from what took place in DC a couple of years ago.

We'll learn what led up to the incursion in and of Brazil's capital buildings, what happened

during the incursion, how it ended, and what the

squashed coup means for the future of the Lula government and the nation of Brazil, when we

have the return of contributor to this is hell. Brian Muir, editor of Year of Lead,

Washington, Wall Street and the new imperialism in Brazil, co-editor at Brazil Wire, Brazil Corresponded for

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