Lula’s emissaries from the military: Brazil saved in 90 minutes

For 90 minutes, in the night between Sunday 8 and Monday 9 January, Brazil risked a real coup. Not an even more violent rerun of the invasion that had just devastated the symbols of the Three Powers.

A little, very little, one word too many, a spark would have been enough: the military would have imposed itself by force and would have taken power.