January 12, 2023

Brazil’s failed coup and the January 6 attack: how far do the parallels go?

Guardian - The similarities between Sunday’s attack on Brazil’s capital and the one on the US Capitol two years ago are unsettling – from the conspiracy theories that drove them to the images of vaunted democratic institutions in tatters... Julian Borger, world affairs editor for the Guardian, has written an analysis explaining why those similarities aren’t just symbolic, but the product of links steadily fostered between the two men hovering over both, and the movements that built up around them.

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