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Can Lula put Brazilian democracy back together again?

Can Lula put Brazilian democracy back together again?

From the military to the Supreme Court, many of the country’s institutions are creaking under accusations of divided loyalties.

Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro storm the Supreme Court building in Brasilia on January 8  AP

Buenos Aires | On January 2, the day after veteran leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as Brazil’s president, Anderson Torres started a new job in charge of security in the nation’s capital.

A former federal police agent who had been justice minister under the previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, Torres removed several of the police commanders in Brasília and then promptly went on holiday to Florida.

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