Brazil Has Its Own ‘Not an Insurrection’ Capital Riot

ANALYSIS – BREAKING NEWS! – Brazil just suffered an attempted coup, an attempt to overthrow the government, an insurrection!

Brazil's democracy is now at risk due to the storming of its most sacred political spaces by enraged right-wing extremists.

Wait, that sounds familiar.

Oh yes. It's a repeat of the Democrat's January 6 Capitol Riot ‘insurrection' narrative but repackaged for Brazil.

What really happened?

Newly-elected socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pledged to bring dastardly right-wing rioters to justice after they swarmed several government buildings in Brazil's federal capital, Brasília, on January 8.

Like their counterparts in the U.S. in 2021, the conservative, anti-Lula rioters were protesting what they said was a fraudulent election.

Lula was sworn in as the country's president on January 1.

Not unlike the Capitol Riot in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, Brazilian police retook their public buildings after roughly three hours and dispersed the unarmed crowd with tear gas.

One difference – based on initial reports, it appears the January 6 riot in D.C. was actually more violent than this bigger one in Brasília.

Thousands of anti-Lula demonstrators broke into the Supreme Court, Congress and presidential palace after their makeshift protest encampments in front of the Brazilian Army headquarters were set to be dismantled by the newly-elected Lula government.

Lula's week-old, far-left administration has been under extreme pressure after a hotly contested election against conservative ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.

Similar to the 2020 election in the U.S., many of Bolsonaro's supporters claim there was widespread fraud in the October 30, 2022, runoff race, which Bolsonaro narrowly lost to Lula.

Mass protests have since gripped Brazil. The protesters also asked the military to intervene.

Along with the huge protests, pro-Bolsonaro encampments sprang up outside Army garrisons in cities throughout the country.

While the U.S. and global media immediately labeled the mass riot – an ‘insurrection,' just as they did with the 2021 Capitol riot, there is little evidence these unarmed protesters posed any threat to the government in Brasília, any more than the Capitol rioters did in Washington, D.C.

It was mostly political theater.

But especially to the left-leaning American media, the ‘insurrection' narrative is too good to pass up.

It's an especially ridiculous narrative for Latin America which has suffered decades of real, deadly, armed leftist violence, terrorism, insurgency and insurrection.

There, mass protests, riots and political violence are an almost daily occurrence and originate almost exclusively from the Left.

From the deadly Maoist Shining Path in Peru to the communist narco-terrorist FARC in Colombia, most of the bloody insurrection in Latin America in recent decades has been extremely left-wing.

On Tuesday, at least 17 people were killed, and more than 60 others injured in fighting with police in Juliaca, in southern Peru. This brought the number of deaths to 39 since the protests began.

Who are these deadly rioters?

They are far-left supporters of jailed former far-left President Pedro Castillo, who was impeached and removed from office in December by the Congress of Peru after attempting a real ‘auto-golpe,' or self-coup.

These real left-wing extremists are violently rioting to force the government to release a jailed former president who just tried to keep himself in power via a coup.

The auto-golpe has been a favorite tactic of the far-left in Latin America since Hugo Chávez made it fashionable in Venezuela. 

It was also attempted by Chavez acolyte Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in 2009.

Of course, in true Alice in Wonderland form, Zelaya's legal removal from office by the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court was widely and falsely disparaged by the international left, and its co-opted global organizations and media, as a ‘coup.'

Meanwhile, in Brazil, Bolsonaro condemned the January 8 breaches of government buildings, saying on Twitter that peaceful demonstrations within the bounds of the law “are part of democracy,” but that “invasions of public buildings” went too far.

While he hasn't conceded defeat to Lula, Bolsonaro authorized his chief of staff to begin a transition in November and has said he would abide by Brazil's constitution.

That hasn't kept Lula from following the playbook used by Democrat partisans in the U.S., blaming the ex-president for inciting the so-called ‘insurrection.'

To continue the parallels, let's see if Lula's government creates a ‘January 8 Committee' in Brazil's congress that will keep this short-lived, unarmed riot alive and in the news for the next two years. ALD

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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