Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had harsh words for those who stormed his country’s parliament, its Supreme Court and presidential palace this past weekend. Guilherme Casarões, a professor at the Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the role Brazilian authorities and security services may have played in the rioting.
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