Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday announced the appointment of former military general Fernando Azevedo e Silva to the post of defence minister.
Azevedo e Silva is the third ministerial appointment that Bolsonaro, himself a former army captain, has drawn from the military, following that of general Augusto Heleno as minister of institutional security, and astronaut and air force pilot Marcos Pontes as minister of science and technology.
Azevedo e Silva entered the army reserves in September before he was controversially named as special advisor to Supreme Court President Dias Toffoli.
That move sparked consternation from those worried about an army…
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