The insurrection supporting far right former president Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil was put down within a day on January 9, and more than a thousand protesters have been detained. But the dangers of more instability confronting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva remain high, especially because the antipathy toward Lula is widespread within elite economic circles and, perhaps more worrisome, among Brazil’s military and security forces.
The uprising should have come as no surprise. It is well known that the mobs camped out in Brasília months before the attacks and was financed by extreme-right…
