Brazil’s Bolsonaro names three new military chiefs
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Wednesday appointed new army, navy and air force chiefs one day after
announcing their predecessors’ departures, as the far-right leader weathers
the biggest crisis of his administration.
The new defense minister, General Walter Braga Netto, presented Army
General Paulo Sergio Nogueira de Oliveira, Navy Admiral Almir Garnier and Air
Force commander Brigadier Carlos Almeida Baptista Jr at a brief ceremony.
Braga Netto said the trio would all be “faithful to their constitutional
missions of defending the homeland, guaranteeing constitutional powers and
guaranteeing democratic freedoms.”
for an explosion of Covid-19 deaths, replacing his foreign, defense and
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