Condemnation poured in from around the world against mobs that smashed their way into Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace.
US President Joe Biden assailed Sunday's attacks by supporters of right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, who lost last year's election, as"outrageous." FILE PHOTO
Democrats on the US Senate foreign relations committee noted that the violence came nearly two years to the day after supporters of then-president Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.China said it "firmly opposes the violent attack" on the government buildings in Brasilia.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric decried "this cowardly and vile attack on democracy" and said the Lula government has Chile's "complete backing." Such an attack on government offices is "unacceptable and incompatible with any form of democratic dissent," the far-right leader continued, calling for a "return to normalcy."
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