Former president Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed Brasília on Jan. 8 in hopes of reversing his election loss, is due to testify to federal police on Wednesday.
Months later, it’s clear: Instead of jolting the country into taking seriously its political divisions, the attack has become just one more way to measure them.
According to the authorities here, these are the facts: Hard-line Bolsonaristas spent weeks camped out in front of military bases throughout Brazil after Bolsonaro’s October loss to Lula. Parroting Bolsonaro’s unsubstantiated claims that fraud had marred the results, and convinced Lula had stolen the election, they pleaded with Brazil’s armed forces to block his inauguration.Lula took the oath of office on Jan.
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