Rio de Janeiro — Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress within the capital of Brasília on Sunday, climbing on high of its roof and breaking the glass in its home windows.
Others demonstrators had been gathering outdoors the presidential palace and Supreme Court, though it was not instantly clear whether or not they had managed to interrupt into the buildings.
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The incidents, which recalled the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol, come only a week after leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in on Jan. 1.
Bolsonaro supporters have been protesting towards Lula’s electoral win since Oct. 30, blocking roads, setting automobiles on fires and gathering outdoors army buildings, asking armed forces to intervene.
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