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Tom Phillips in Brasília

After the rampage: Brazil’s new leaders to fight hard in wake of ‘insane’ coup attempt

Damage at Brazil’s national congress after the rampage in Brasília last week.
Damage at Brazil’s national congress after the rampage in Brasília last week. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters

Sônia Guajajara should have been making history last Tuesday afternoon, being sworn in as the head of Brazil’s first ministry for Indigenous peoples at a ceremony at the presidential palace in Brasília.

Instead, with that building wrecked last Sunday by thousands of far-right extremists, she sat in her office overlooking Brazil’s similarly ransacked congress, reflecting on the stunning attempt to overthrow one of the world’s biggest democracies.

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