The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, dismissed the commander of the Army, General Júlio César de Arruda, two weeks after the coup attempt, which occurred on January 8, perpetrated by radical Bolsonarists.
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The Brazilian Defense Minister, José Múcio, declared to the press that the replacement in office will be General Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva, who had been serving as the military commander of the Southeast.
“Obviously, after these episodes, the question of the camps, the question of January 8, the relations, mainly in the command of the Army, suffered a fracture in the level of trust and we believed that we needed to stagnate that quickly from the beginning so that we can overcome that episode,” said the minister.
“Relations mainly in the Army command suffered a fracture in the level of trust and we believed that we needed to stagnate that from the beginning to be able to overcome that episode,” says the Defense Minister to explain the replacement of the Army commander. pic.twitter.com/Glv8rSJqkB
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Múcio stressed that “today we are once again investing in the rapprochement of our Armed Forces with the Government of President Lula.”
“I wanted to introduce you to his replacement, General Tomás, who as of today is the new commander of the Armed Forces, of the Brazilian Army. Later, you will be able to talk better with him (…) starting next week when is the official assumption, they will have the opportunity to talk with him and recount everything that happened,” the minister said.
Before being dismissed, Arruda participated the day before in a meeting at the Planalto Palace (government seat), with Lula, Múcio Monteiro and the commanders of the Navy, Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen, and of the Aeronautics, Brigadier Marcelo Kanitz Damascene.
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