Another January 6th? Catherine Osborn on Brazil’s Election & Political Violence

Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to elect their next president and other key legislators in Brazil’s general election. If neither presidential candidate – Brazil’s current right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro or Brazil’s former left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – wins a majority of the vote, a runoff election will take place on October 30th. Election watchers worry Bolsonaro will contest the election results should he lose, prompting a violent insurrection which might look even worse than the January 6th protests in the US.

What is the likelihood Bolsonaro and his supporters will stage a coup-like event in Brazil? And, how has the Brazilian right been inspired or influenced by the events of January 6th? Is America’s example, for good and bad, really that powerful in Brazil? Foreign Policy’s Catherine Osborn joins the Institute for Global Affairs’ Mark Hannah to dig into all of this and more as the world awaits the election results of the Western hemisphere’s second largest democracy.

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This podcast episode includes references to the Eurasia Group Foundation, now known as the Institute for Global Affairs.