Brazilian security forces ignored the pleas of former president Bolsonaro's supporters, camped at military bases, to overthrow the new governmentREUTERSLatin America once excelled at revolution but the suppression of Sunday's attempted insurrection in Brazil against the newly-elected government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suggests that the politics of machismo may finally be fading into the sunset. True, there was the storming and trashing of government buildings and the mass arrest of protestors.

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