Good morning. Almost exactly two years after the January 6 Capitol attack in the United States, Brazil has seen a far-right coup attempt of its own.
On Sunday, as many as 3,000 extremists stormed the architectural treasures of the presidential palace, the supreme court and the Congress in Brasília. They smashed windows, threw rocks, destroyed works of art and a replica of the constitution, stole documents, beat and bloodied at least one police officer, and lit fires. “This is a historic moment,” one protester said on a livestream. “This is the invasion, no, the occupation, of the National Congress.”
