US President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva talked over the telephone a day after supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed into the seat of presidency within the Brazilian capital Brasilia.
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US President Joe Biden has conveyed “unwavering” assist to Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a telephone name and invited him to the White House subsequent month.
“President Biden conveyed the unwavering support of the United States for Brazil’s democracy,” the White House mentioned in an announcement on Monday, including that Biden, who’s in Mexico City for a summit, invited Lula to go to him in “early February.”
Lula accepted the invitation, in line with the assertion.
The telephone name got here the day after supporters of Lula’s defeated right-wing rival, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, stormed into the seat of presidency within the Brazilian capital Brasilia.
Their assault, fueled by the Bolsonaro camp’s repeated false assertions that final 12 months’s election was stolen, echoed an assault by supporters of ex-president Donald Trump on the US Capitol quickly after he misplaced his 2020 election to Biden.
World leaders have closed ranks round Lula, a veteran leftist politician and already a former president of Latin America’s most populous nation.
Biden informed Lula of his assist for “the free will of the Brazilian people as expressed in Brazil’s recent presidential election, which President Lula won.
President Biden condemned the violence and the attack on democratic institutions and on the peaceful transfer of power,” the assertion mentioned.
“The two leaders pledged to work closely together on the issues confronting the United States and Brazil, including climate crisis, economic development, and peace and security,” the assertion mentioned, describing the February assembly in Washington as an opportunity for “in-depth consultations on a wide-ranging shared agenda.”
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Investigation continues
Brazilian authorities have mentioned that they have been trying into who could have been behind the stunning rebellion that despatched protesters storming into the nation’s halls of energy.
Also on Monday, police broke down a pro-Bolsonaro encampment outdoors a navy constructing and detained some 1,200 folks there, the justice ministry’s press workplace informed The Associated Press.
The federal police press workplace mentioned the pressure already plans to indict roughly 1,000 folks.
Lula and the heads of the Supreme Court, Senate and Lower House signed a letter that denounced the assault and mentioned have been taking authorized measures.
Justice Minister Flavio Dino informed reporters that police have begun monitoring those that paid for the buses that transported protesters to the capital.
Speaking at a news convention, he mentioned rioters apparently supposed for his or her shows to create a domino impact nationwide, and that they might be charged with a spread of offences, together with organised crime, staging a coup and violent abolition of the democratic rule of regulation.
“We think that the worst is over,” Dino mentioned, including that the federal government is now targeted on punishing lawbreakers and those that enabled them.
“We cannot and will not compromise in fulfilling our legal duties, because this fulfilment is essential so such events do not repeat themselves.”
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Bolsonaro hospitalised
Meanwhile, Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Florida with intestinal discomfort as a result of a stabbing he suffered through the 2018 election marketing campaign, his spouse Michelle Bolsonaro mentioned on Instagram.
In Brazil, Dr. Antonio Luiz Macedo, who has been treating Bolsonaro for the reason that stabbing, mentioned he has an intestinal subocclusion, or blockage, however was unlikely to want surgical procedure.
“It is not a serious case,” he informed Reuters.
Earlier, a supply near his household mentioned Bolsonaro’s situation was “not worrying.” Brazilian newspaper O Globo had reported earlier within the day that Bolsonaro had been affected by belly ache.
Bolsonaro has undergone six surgical procedures since his stabbing, 4 of them immediately linked to the assault.
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