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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nicola Slawson

First Thing: Lula vows to punish Bolsonaro supporters who stormed congress

An anti-Lula protest
Lula was not in Brasília at the time of the attack but he gave an angry speech blaming Bolsonaro for the chaos and promising that ‘anyone involved will be punished’. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

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The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has toured the wreckage of his presidential palace after an extraordinary day of political violence in the capital, Brasília, during which thousands of far-right extremists ran riot through the country’s democratic institutions in a failed attempt to overthrow his week-old government.

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