The upheaval rocking Brazil intensified Tuesday, with former President Jair Bolsonaro signaling he’ll soon return home from Florida while new leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appears increasingly eager to levy harsh punishments on Bolsonaro supporters who ransacked the country’s capital on Sunday.
Pressure continues to mount on Mr. Lula from Brazil’s left to seize on Sunday’s uprising as a chance to crack down upon and potentially crush the activist right-wing populist movement that passionately backs Mr. Bolsonaro, and which the ex-president is accused of at least tacitly encouraging since his close electoral loss in October.
The events just one week after the inauguration of Mr.