Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Brazil’s far-right rioters are gone. Their threat is just beginning.
Like the other Cold War right-wing military regimes in Latin America, the Brazilian dictatorship was propped up by the U.S. Brazil was part of thethat exchanged knowledge about repression and psychological warfare, shared intelligence about leftist opponents and plotted cross-border murders and kidnappings of dissidents.
Jan. 6, 2021, and Jan. 8, 2023, are parts of a global attempt to subvert democracies and install authoritarian rule. We must be vigilant in calling out the new far-right networks that stretch from Moscow to Budapest, Rome, Brasilia and Washington and prosecute the instigators promptly, as Lula is doing in Brazil.Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian and commentator on authoritarianism and propaganda.
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