The January 8 riots, when hordes of supporters of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília, might have seemed like a moment of opportunity for the newly sworn-in Luiz Inácio da Silva administration. After all, it was vehemently condemned globally as an attack on one of the world’s largest democracies.
So, when the suggestion to set up a parliamentary inquiry to investigate the Brasília riots came along, it sounded like a gimme for Lula — a chance to lay the sordid details of the putschist far-right out in the open. But that was not the case.
Lula’s…