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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Andrew Downie

‘An anachronic system’: focus on military police reform after Brazil riot

Supporters of Bolsonaro and security forces in Brasília, Brazil, on 8 January.
Supporters of Bolsonaro and security forces in Brasília, Brazil, on 8 January. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The mob attack on Brazil’s supreme court, congress and presidential palace earlier this month has focused attention on the country’s military police, with calls for the force to be reformed growing amid what experts say could be a “window of opportunity” for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Thousands of far-right radicals supportive of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the presidential palace, the congress building and the supreme court on 8 January.

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