What's happening in Brazil?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily podcast, host Niall Paterson talks to our digital investigation journalist Victoria Elms about the events leading up to the protest. He also explores the aftermath of the riots with Sky News’s chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who is in the capital, Brasilia.
Plus, the author of Beef, Bullets and Bible: Brazil in The Age of Bolsonaro, Richard Lapper, talks about the role played by the former leader in inciting the events - and the parallels between what happened in Brazil and the January 6 2021 riots in the US.
Producers: Soila Apparicio and Rosie Gillott
Junior Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Interviews Producer: Tamara Bungaroo Valdes
Podcast Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:01.7 | Now, I'll forgive you if you haven't noticed what's been taking place in Brazil at the weekend, |
| 1:06.6 | because frankly there has been an awful lot of news around. But on Sunday, thousands of people made their |
| 1:11.9 | way to and through Brazil's capital, Brazilian, and they stormed the palace, the Supreme Court, |
| 1:18.4 | and the Congress itself. Now, the reason for this stems all the way back to October 22, |
| 1:23.2 | and a rather bitter set of presidential elections between the then-incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, |
| 1:28.7 | the writer of far-right populist. |
| 1:30.7 | He was defeated by a very narrow margin by Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva, known more commonly as Lula. |
| 1:38.8 | Now, there are plenty of people in that country who think that Lula should not even have stood. |
| 1:43.6 | He spent 580 days in jail on corruption |
| 1:47.3 | charges. Those charges were later quashed. But one person who has certainly never accepted the result |
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