Tag: General Eduardo Villas Boas

• Monday, April 23rd 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  Corruption a threat to democracy, remarks top Brazilian military on Army Day

  

  Brazil's top army commander made another foray into political commentary, warning that corruption poses a threat to democracy in Latin America's biggest country. The comment by General Eduardo Villas Boas was his second high-profile remark on the state of Brazil's democracy this month, going against an unwritten rule that high-ranking military officers keep out of politics.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazil's conundrum: Army chief twits “good citizens repudiate impunity and respect the Constitution”

  

  The commander of Brazil's army added tension on the eve of a Supreme Court decision on whether former President Lula da Silva should be allowed to exhaust his appeals process before being sent to jail for a corruption conviction.