Carla Coutinho da Rosa rode her mud-caked bicycle to Brazil’s day of chaos, joining thousands of far-right militants as they marched on congress with a clear objective in their minds.
“The idea was to get rid of Lula,” the 60-year-old businesswoman said of Brazil’s democratically elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who defeated her preferred candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, in October’s election.
Like millions of devoted Bolsonar-istas, Rosa rejects the outcome of that vote and after lunch last Sunday she took to the streets of the capital, Brasília, joining a mass protest that she