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‘Coup-mongering’ Bolsonarista’s battle cry reveals a radicalized Brazil

‘Coup-mongering’ Bolsonarista’s battle cry reveals a radicalized Brazil

GABRIEL STARGARDTER NEARLY two weeks after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's most fraught election in a generation, Milton Baldin arrived in the capital Brasilia to try to overturn the result. A small business owner from the deep interior of Brazil, Baldin, 55, joined thousands of hardcore Bolsonaro supporters who had set up an encampment outside army headquarters, from where they were urging the military to stage a coup. On November 26, Baldin took to the camp's stage and made a call to gun owners across Brazil, a group that has surged to nearly a…
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro to break silence and accept defeat, minister says

Brazil’s Bolsonaro to break silence and accept defeat, minister says

RICARDO BRITO and BRIAN ELLSWORTH BRAZIL'S far-right President Jair Bolsonaro will not contest his electoral defeat and plans to address the nation later, his Communications Minister Fabio Faria told Reuters, as a growing number of political allies advised him to concede. Some of Bolsonaro's hardline supporters have called for military intervention to keep Bolsonaro in power and stop leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office. Pro-Bolsonaro truck drivers blocked federal highways. The presidential address may defuse the protests across Brazil by small groups of his supporters, which have begun to cause economic disruptions, drawing calls from the…
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