LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Brazil government prepares for more anti-democratic protests

The government of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva bolstered security measures nationwide as flyers appeared on pro-Bolsonaro social media calling for mass demonstrations in Brazilian cities to "retake power." "We have measures to reinforce security throughout the country since pamphlets of new demonstrations have been circulated," said Rui Costa, Lula's chief of staff.

The latest in Latin American politics today: Lula government prepares for more protests in Brazil

BRASILIA - Brazil's 11-day-old government braced for more anti-democratic protests by supporter of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, after demonstrator's rampaged through state institutions, threatening to destabilize the country. The government of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva bolstered security measures nationwide as flyers appeared on pro-Bolsonaro social media calling for mass demonstrations in Brazilian cities to "retake power."

"We have measures to reinforce security throughout the country since pamphlets of new demonstrations have been circulated," said Rui Costa, Lula's chief of staff. Peru's top prosecutor launches inquiry into president after protests

LIMA - The office of Peru's top prosecutor said it had launched an inquiry into new President Dina Boluarte and members of her cabinet over violent clashes in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured since early December. However, the new government won a vote of confidence in Congress by a wide margin. A loss would have triggered a cabinet reshuffle and the resignation of Prime Minister Alberto Otarola.

The inquiry comes after 17 civilians were killed in Peru's southern Puno region, the most lethal day of protests since former President Pedro Castillo was ousted and detained last month. First to fall: the Bolsonarista running Brasilia's security

RIO DE JANEIRO - When Brazilian rioters stormed government buildings in Brasilia, the man tasked with keeping the city safe was a continent away in Florida - the same state his ex-boss, former President Jair Bolsonaro, had relocated to after losing last year's election. Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro's justice minister from 2021 to 2022, took a job as Brasilia security chief after leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office on Jan. 1.

He did not last long. Within hours of the invasion of Brazil's presidential palace, Supreme Court and Congress by election-denying Bolsonaro supporters, Torres had lost his new gig, the first to fall after the worst assault on Brazil's institutions since its return to democracy in the 1980s. (Compiled by Natalia Siniawski; Editing by Edmund Blair)

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