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UFC champion Deiveson Figueiredo shares support for pro-Bolsonaro rioters, calls for military coup against elected government

The Brazilian political scenario has gone through ups and downs recently.

Allow me to add some context first

After four years of a disgraceful far-right administration under former president Jair Bolsonaro, whose criminal handling of the COVID-19 pandemic led to over 600 thousand deaths, Brazilian presidential elections took place in October 2022 and former president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, from the Worker’s Party (PT), was elected for the third time.

Although a sigh of relief for most Brazilians, especially the ones living in the poorest parts of the country, Bolsonaro still came out of the elections with a whopping 49.