This Sunday night (Jan. 8), supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro have been blocking a stretch of Anhanguera Highway (SP-330) in Limeira, Sâo Paulo state. The Military Highway Police (PMR) is on-site and monitoring the situation. According to AutoBAn, the concessionaire that runs the highway, the blockades at Km 148 affect traffic in both directions […]
Shortly after, President Lula da Silva decreed federal intervention in Brazil's Federal District because of the invasion of the National Congress in Brasilia the government's Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Flavio Dino, made a harsh statement on Sunday night. About 300 people were arrested, and 40 buses that took protesters to Brasilia were detained […]
Earlier on Monday (Jan. 9), the minister of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, ordered the closure, within 24 hours, of camps around barracks across the country. The minister also ordered the removal of the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha (MDB), from office. The term lasts 90 days. Moraes, the rapporteur of the […]
The Prime Minister of Italy, the conservative Giorgia Meloni, expressed herself on social networks defining as "unacceptable" the images of the invasions to institutional offices and as "incompatible with any form of democratic dissidence". In her message, Meloni also calls for a return to normality and expresses her solidarity with Brazilian institutions. Center-right Uruguayan President […]
The Civil Police of the Federal District (PDCF) reported this Sunday night (Jan. 8) that it had arrested 170 people following the invasions of Congress, the Planalto Palace, and the Federal Supreme Court (STF). "There are already 170 people arrested in today's operation. The police procedures are being finalized by the units of the Specialized […]
One week after the controversy sparked by the pardons of 12 convicts of the 2019 riots and a former member of the radical armed group Patriotic Front Manuel Rodriguez (FPMR), Chile’s justice minister, Marcela Ríos, has resigned. The announcement was made by the country’s president, Gabriel Boric. Chief of Staff and principal adviser to the […]
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT, progressive-globalist) signed this Sunday (Jan. 8) a decree of federal intervention in the security of the Federal District. The decision comes after protesters invaded the Planalto Palace, the National Congress, and the Supreme Court (STF). The decision was announced in a statement by the president during a trip […]