Tag: Brazilian Armed Forces

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 06:20 UTC

  Brazilian armed forces paid tribute to the 1964 coup, soberly, despite Bolsonaro's encouragement

  

  Brazil's armed forces on Sunday paid tribute to a 1964 coup leading to a two-decade dictatorship, after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who argues that military intervention saved the country from communism, reversed an 8-year-ban on celebrations.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:05 UTC

  Brazilian generals in standing contact with their Venezuelan counterparts, reveals Defense minister

  

  The Brazilian Armed Forces maintain an open communication channel with Venezuela’s military even though Brasilia no longer recognizes Nicolas Maduro as president of the neighboring Latin American country, according to Brazil’s Defense Minister.

• Monday, March 13th 2017 - 08:46 UTC

  Brazil ready to launch satellite to protect transfer of national security information

  

  Brazil will launch its first own satellite to protect the transfer of privileged national security information while boosting the broadband capacity of the country later this month. The Geostationary Satellite Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC) will be launched on March 21 from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana. The event is taking place nearly a year after the original launch plan of April 2016.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2013 - 02:02 UTC

  Brazil military regime wanted the ‘bomb’ fearing an armed conflict with Argentina

  

  The military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 was planning to develop an atomic bomb according to secret documents from the Armed Forces Chief of Staff to which the influential newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo had access and released details.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 03:40 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina sign ‘combined military operations’ agreement

  

  Brazil announced on Monday its first agreement on combined operations with Argentina which will allow the two countries forces to act jointly in catastrophe situations and peace missions.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:37 UTC

  Brazil begins major military exercise to test security along its southern borders

  

  Brazilian Armed Forces began this week a major deployment along the borders of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia involving 9.000 troops from the three services with the purpose of testing border security against smugglers mainly of arms and drugs and organized crime, said the Ministry of Defence.

• Monday, May 14th 2012 - 19:22 UTC

  Brazil military police occupies favelas in Rio to prevent full fledged drugs war

  

  Brazilian police was out in full force to occupy for an indefinite period a group of favelas (shanty towns) surrounding the ‘marvellous’ city of Rio do Janeiro following the killing of the state’s most wanted drug lord.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 12:58 UTC

  Brazil Defence minister wants the South Atlantic as a peace zone shared with Africa

  

  Brazil’s new Defence minister Celso Amorim said he plans closer links with Unasur (Union of South American Nations) and Africa to ensure the South Atlantic turns into a peace zone free of weapons of mass destruction.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 02:28 UTC

  Brazil fears disclosure of ‘nuclear secrets’ could affect relations with Argentina

  

  Brazilian Defence and diplomatic sources consider ‘highly inconvenient’ disclosing documents from the time of the military dictatorship (1964/1985) and from other administrations because they could reveal nuclear secrets and affect relations with Argentina, according to Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 09:28 UTC

  Rousseff expects to have a Truth Commission working by the end of 2011

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff trusts a Truth Commission can be set up and working before the end of the year to investigate crimes and human rights abuses committed during the military dictatorship which extended from 1964 to 1985.