Commentary
After more than three months, questions continue to emerge over the “assault” on government buildings in Brazil’s capital city on Jan. 8.
Army general Gonçalves Dias is the head of Brazil’s Institutional Security Bureau (GSI), which advises the president on defence and security matters and handles presidential security.
However, Dias resigned after a CNN television network broadcast leaked CCTV images in which he displayed an attitude of passive collaboration with the invaders who vandalised the presidential palace.
The images displayed by CNN Brazil are compelling and appear to show that the alleged attacks, which the Brazilian government has labelled a coup, were carried out with the complicity of government agents in the service of the Lula administration….