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Brazil coup

mercredi 11 janvier 2023 à 16:01

Bolsonaro's followers openly promoted their violent plans (to attack Brazil's highest government buildings) on antisocial media platforms, with hardly any hindrance.

The governor of the Brasilia region and its security chief were Bolsonarists, and did not cooperate in protecting the government from the planned riot. They have been fired.

*1,500 Bolsonaro Backers [arrested] After Far-Right Coup Attempt in Brazil.*

It is good that they did not let all the rioters get away. But it would have been better to hold everyone who had attacked the government buildings, at least enough to identify them and search them. Bolsonaro's followers remain a threat to democracy and liberty in Brazil, and (due to their commitment to deforestation) to the survival of civilization as well. The US is an exception among countries in several ways. Here are a few unfortunate exceptions that we Americans ought to fix.

The ICC is supposed to prosecute people for war crimes when their own countries fail to prosecute them. The US should sign the ICC treaty; but them it should never leave prosecution of American war criminals to the ICC. The US should prosecute them.