The weekend assault on Brazil's corridors of power by supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro bore "traces of Trumpism", Spain said Monday, warning such extremists posed democracy's biggest threat. On Sunday, hundreds stormed Brazil's Congress, its presidential palace and the Supreme Court in a dramatic protest a week after the inauguration of veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Douglas Herbert gives his perspective.
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