‘I hope he goes to jail’: Brazil’s Cannes-winning director on Bolsonaro and political amnesia

Mendonça calls Bolsonaro’s conviction a sign justice has prevailed. “And I do hope he goes to jail,” he adds, recalling how the bungled putsch culminated in the 8 January 2023 attacks in Brasília when rioters wrecked the capital after leftwing candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat Bolsonaro in th...

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