Security forces have detained 1,500 people after supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília
Thousands of demonstrators ransacked the Congress building as well as the presidential palace, and Supreme Court on Sunday
A supreme court judge has ordered that camps outside the army’s headquarters in the capital – and at other sites – be dismantled
Bolsonaro lost the presidential election to left-wing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October after sowing unsubstantiated claims about voting systems
Many of his supporters have refused to accept the result and some have been camping outside army buildings around the country calling for a military intervention
Bolsonaro has denied encouraging Sunday’s attack, saying what happened had gone beyond democratic protest
World leaders including US President Joe Biden have condemned the riots as an attack on democracy
