Bolsonaro ramped up Brazil’s gun culture. Can Lula reign it in?

Previously 4 years, the variety of privately owned weapons in Brazil has greater than doubled to just about 2 million.

Demonstrators inflate a doll depicting Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro throughout a protest in help of gun rights and Bolsonaro. [Adriano Machado/Reuters]

After successful the Brazilian election, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will as soon as once more change into the nation’s President in January, greater than 10 years after he final held the place. However his victory was slender and present President Jair Bolsonaro nonetheless received greater than 49 % of the vote.

Lula, as he's identified, will now try and roll again a lot of Bolsonaro’s right-wing insurance policies – together with the loosening of Brazil’s gun-control measures, which led to the variety of weapons in non-public arms doubling since 2018. However how straightforward will that be?

On this episode:

• Azade Pesmen (@azadethunda), freelance journalist
• Melina Risso (@melinarisso), analysis director, The Igarape Institute

Episode credit:

This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra with Chloe Okay. Li and Negin Owliaei. Ruby Zaman fact-checked this episode. Our manufacturing group contains Amy Walters, Alexandra Locke, Chloe Okay. Li, Negin Owliaei and our host, Halla Mohieddeen. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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