BRASÍLIA—Brazilian authorities on Monday detained more than 1,000 supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro and removed Brasília’s federal district governor, an ally, from his post after protesters stormed the presidential palace a day earlier in what officials said was an attempt to overthrow the country’s newly elected president.
Protesters supporting the army-captain-turned-politician forced their way into the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court in the capital on Sunday, many calling for military intervention to oust Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a standard-bearer of the Latin American left who took office a week ago.
