Michael Did Bolsonaro Have Anything to Do With These Protests?

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Bolsonaro is not even in the country right now. He went to Florida in the US rather than attend the inauguration of Lula, who is his bitter rival. But Michael did Bolsonaro have anything to do with these protests? They say that the election was rigged while providing no evidence for it. And they want the armed forces to intervene. This sounds a lot like the insurrection that we saw in Washington, D.C.

Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former rightwing president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s capital, and America’s biggest banks are set to report another quarter of bumper profits. Plus, the FT’s Middle East editor Andrew England explains how Gulf nations’ sovereign wealth funds plan to invest the cash they’ve reaped from the recent boom in oil prices.

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