I'm John Batscher with Evan Ellis, my friend and colleague he is a professor, Latin American

research professor at the US Army War College.

Brazil's election held successfully in 2023,

and the two sides fell apart.

There was no violence except on January 8th

there was an incident at Brasilia that resembled a challenge, a

revolution, a disturbance, in some fashion irregularity in the ordinary transfer of power after an election.

The gathering around the Brazilian congressional building, empty at the time.

It was a period in early January of a year past. However, that has led to an

explosion, well I won't use that metaphor because of Ecuador, a considerable argument over the last year that Bolsonaro, the defeated

president, has forces that you can't see that are any moment liable to move against the state or move against Lula de Silva.

Therefore, the news on the one-year anniversary of January 8th.

Brazil marks anniversary of January 8th attack on democracy.

Brazilian authorities celebrated their country's democratic system a year after a right-wing

crowd invaded and vandalized its Supreme Court under a screen that said democracy unshaken.

Congressional leaders, Supreme Court justices, and government officials led by

President Lula de Silva recalled the day that the capital of Brasilia was stormed by protesters calling for a

military coup. Professor, the reason I emphasize this not only because it has all

the elements that we know we're going through here in the United States about January 6th some years past

But at the same time my observation is that it keeps Mr Bolsonaro, the defeated candidate in the news.

He is disenfranchised from running again having to do with other court proceedings.

But in any event, Lula de Silva is doing the job of saying the opposition is ferocious and powerful and we're under threat.

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