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Today, the downfall of Jaya Bolsonaro, Brazil's far-right populist.

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A week after the inauguration of Brazil's left-wing president, Louise Inasio Lula de Silva,

a violent mob broke into the presidential palace and ransacked the Supreme Court and the Brazilian Congress.

This was January 23,

almost exactly two years since Trump supporters had stormed the capital.

It felt eerily familiar.

The insurrectionists were supporters of Jaya Bolsano,

the far-right populist who'd narrowly lost

Toulula in the general election.

Tom Phillips was there. He's the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.

I remember on January the 9th, going into Congress, into the presidential palace and into the Supreme Court to witness those scenes of destruction, shattered glass everywhere, furniture thrown all over the place, graffiti on the walls.

It looked like the scene of a natural disaster, like a tsunami had swept through these buildings.

Little did he know then. Just how close Brazil came to losing its democracy.

It was obvious that Brazil's democratic institutions had come under a very severe attack.

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