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Can Lula put Brazilian democracy back together again?

Many of the country’s institutions, from the military to the Supreme Court, are creaking under accusations of divided loyalties

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.

His vacation has been cut short. After the storming of key government buildings in Brasília on Sunday, which represented the biggest attack on Brazilian democracy since the military rule of the 1980s, the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Torres, accusing him of dereliction of duty.

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