Tag: Brazilian military

• Wednesday, May 8th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian military caution Bolsonaro on the extreme views of the influential “Trotsky of the right”

  

  The growing differences between members of the military and the so-called ideological faction of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro’s government prompted a reaction from a retired Army High Commander--Eduardo Villas Bôas—who considers the president to be absent in the dispute and wants to limit what he sees as institutional disrespect.

• Saturday, March 9th 2019 - 07:55 UTC

  Bolsonaro praises Brazilian military as the ultimate arbiters of democracy

  

  Brazil’s far-right president described the country’s armed forces, which led the country under a military dictatorship for over two decades, as the ultimate arbiters of democracy. Speaking at a naval event in Rio de Janeiro alongside some of the former generals who sit in his cabinet, Jair Bolsonaro praised Brazil’s military.

• Saturday, February 18th 2017 - 06:55 UTC

  Brazilian military the most trusted institution, exempt from pensions' reform

  

  Ever so dependent on the Armed Forces to keep law and order, the Brazilian government has exempted the military from a far-reaching pension reform. Following Congress's approval of a public spending cap late last year, the government of President Michel Temer is pushing ahead with a broad pension reform as the next stage of its austerity agenda.