Not even 10 days have passed in the new year, and again another Latin American nation is enthralled into another reactionary storm. Almost two months have passed since Lula’s presidential election, but in that time, fascists have been planning to invade the National Congress of Brazil; so, on Jan.8, outspoken supporters of former reactionary president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Congress, followed by the vandalization of governmental buildings and the looting of the armory of Planalto Palace.
The popular response to this civil disobedience has been not in the favor of the reactionaries, there is outcry for the president to react accordingly to resolve the situation. President Lula has called on for a month-long investigation into the public security, since it was noticed during the action law enforcement allowing for dissidents to enter the Congress and damage property, even assisting them in.
Without a doubt this action was organized with the support of state officials, with the first to fall being the governor of the Federal District of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, who is being investigated of supporting the dissidents plan out their pillaging, is claimed he was "aware of the preparations for the violent actions, and such events could only occur with the consent and effective participation of the authorities in matters of security in Brasília.” People's Dispatch
Circumstances are at its worst, the right demonstrating their willingness to act by any means necessary against the state they considered rigged the elections, which is a direct violation to the majority will of Brazil and Brazilian democracy. The fascists are sore losers. Though the popular masses and even international leaders are behind Lula, supporting his intervention against the dissidents.
The storm may be raging right now, but as the Brazilian people have demonstrated, they will not return to fascism, and will seek to fight for their democracy; the people voted for Lula and the Workers’ Party as their state actors because they trust they will steer them out of this storm, into a future worth having fought for.