Arick Wierson

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MundoAmérica,

For my family, it was supposed to be a lazy Sunday – we were enjoying “caipirinhas” and other traditional Brazilian fare during our final day in the country after three weeks of holiday vacation.

Then the news broke that thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro had stormed the headquarters of all branches of the federal government in the capital, Brasilia, vandalizing the buildings of the Plaza of the Three Powers – Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace.

The invasion of these key government buildings, which eerily mirrors the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, followed two months of protests around the country by Bolsonaro’s supporters.…  Seguir leyendo »

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva raises his fist after addressing supporters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday, October 30.

MundoAmérica,

This Sunday more than 120 million Brazilians went to the polls to vote in a run-off presidential election in which former President Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva posted a stunning political comeback.

Lula beat incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro with 50.9% of the vote against Bolsonaro’s 49.1% – a difference of roughly two million of the eligible votes cast.

It was a nail-biter of an election with the final result coming only after nearly all of the votes from the country’s 577,000 electronic voting machines had been tabulated.

On one hand, Lula’s victory marked a sharp rebuke of Bolsonaro’s irreverent and often-times controversial governing style, which earned him the derisive moniker as the ‘Trump of the Tropics.’…  Seguir leyendo »