MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazilian military warn incoming Defence minister forces are ‘non political, non partisan’
A Brazilian retired general and former commander of UN forces in Haiti warned the new Defence minister Celso Amorim to avoid giving the Armed Forces command a ‘left-wing ideological imprint’. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWise words from this man.
Aug 08th, 2011 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Any attempt by Amorim to 'policisise' the armed forces, etc, will set up tensions not only outside Brasil & South America, but also within the federal republic.
Any attempt to de-amnestify in order to castrate the military will also be counter-productive, leading to polarisation within the state, destabilisation, and the potential relocation of the World Cup and the Olympics to a more stable country.
The long-term effects on world opinion would terminally harm Brasil's 'one shot' struggle to Developed status and UNSC.
Classic Geoff, alternating between platitudes and hysteria.
Aug 08th, 2011 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
Aug 08th, 2011 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OK, so take a mid-point; it still holds good,
and the words of General Augusto Heleno still have a powerful ring of truth about them.
Never has the military been more removed from politics than they are right now. There's no room for government-military tensions, at least in the 50s and 60s style, to emerge in this moment - not now when Brazil is enjoying more stability than it has had for its entire history. And it is not the amnesty issue that is going to change that, Geoff. Mr. Heleno's words are but hot air, empty words of a man who has nothing left against a government he dislikes than exaggerated posturing.
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