by Eric Simmons, MPA, Big League Politics:
Shortly after the controversial Brazilian presidential election that saw leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, commonly referred to simply as “Lula,” take power from conservative President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians flooded the streets in protest of what they strongly believe was a subversion of their democracy by the socialist leader and his allies in government, joining together in prayer and calling on the military to fix what they asserted was a leftist takeover of their nation.