The storming of Brazil’s seat of power by a mob of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro has put the spotlight on Brazil’s security forces, raising questions about their unpreparedness and incompetence, and perhaps even their complicity with protesters demanding the overturning of a democractic vote.
On Sunday evening, just hours after rioters stormed Brazil’s seat of power in a shocking, but entirely foreseen, attack on democracy, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tore into the country’s security forces.