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This week’s R&D is on recent developments in Brazilian politics.  President Jair Bolsonaro recently called on his supporters to gather in the capital of Brasilia to express their support for his administration and protest the actions of the nation’s Supreme Court.  Brazil will not have a presidential election until fall, but observers fear that Bolsonaro is riling up his base to challenge the result of that election.  There were also fears that Bolsonaro’s backers would try to overrun the Supreme Court building, which would be Brazil’s version of the January 6 Capitol riot in the United States.