Abank robber, a gunrunner and a weed smuggler sat down in a square, surrounded by rifle-toting bodyguards and became locked in debate over their country’s political future.
“Life’s been easier under Bolsonaro. It’s easier to get guns. It’s easier to get ammunition,” said the gun trafficker as he and his clique pondered the battle for power between Brazil’s far-right president and his challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “But the one who governed for the poor was Lula,” he said of the leftist former president whose social programmes helped