Bolsonaro Generals: who are the highest ranking military officers in the circle of the elected president | Politics

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• Antônio Hamilton Martins Mourão (Vice President)
• Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira Guilherme Theophilo ( National Secretariat for Public Security)
• [Brésil] [Brésil] [Brésil] [Brésil] [Brésil] [Brésil] [Brésil] [Brésil] Admiral Bento Costa Lima Leite (Mines and Energy)

In addition to vice -president, they will direct five ministries – including the file of the Defense, created in 1999 and directed until the government of Michel Temer is directed by a civil. They will be under the control of important military government dialogue posts with the Parliament, the states and the municipalities, as well as the badysis of government propaganda contracts and the strategic decision on long-term projects in the country.

The largest number of officers present in the first level of the executive in 2019 will be the largest number since 1988, year of rewriting the Brazilian Constitution, and can be compared to that of the last leader of the military regime.

João Figueiredo (1979-1985), who headed the Plbadto during the democratic transition period, led four generals in ministries (Land Affairs, Civil House, Education and Culture, and Chief of Staff of the Forces). at the Research and Documentation Center of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. The number of Figueiredo's first-level generals is seven if we include the three ministers of the armed forces (army, navy and air force) who then had the status of a ministry, which does not is no longer the case.

Figueiredo, like Bolsonaro, chooses civilians with military experience, but of lower rank: a former student of military school took the file of Mines and Energy, the lieutenant-colonel Jarbas Pbadarinho of the Social security and a other colonel the Ministry of the Interior. Bolsonaro, who graduated as a military paratrooper in 1977, placed at the highest rank an "elite troop" of paratroopers – there are six qualified generals – apart from Mourão, the future.

Augusto Heleno Pereira, Minister of the Office of Institutional Security (GSI), Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, Head of the Government Secretariat, Fernando Azevedo e Silva, new Minister of Defense, and the future head of the National Secretariat of Public Security, Guilherme Theophilo.

The future commander of the president, General Edson Leal Pujol

is added to the troop of paratroopers.

A paratrooper will also be present at the Federal Supreme Court: General Ajax Porto Pinheiro would be the President of the Court, José Antonio Dias Toffoli, as well as Pujol and three other senior officials of Bolsonaro, Pinheiro was military commander of the mission of United Nations peacekeeping in Haiti, where Brazil had exercised its troops from 2004 to 2017. Bolsonaro chosen by the highest rank chosen by Bolsonaro who was in Haiti reached 6 if there is the new minister of Defense, which coordinated multinational operations in the Caribbean country

Three other generals of Bolsonaro participated in international peace operations abroad: MP Mourão worked in Angola, the future Minister of Mines and Mines. Energy, Admiral Bento Costa Lima Leite, was an observer in Sarajevo and General Theophilo acted as he finds pain in Central America.

Lima Leite is still different from other generals because he had a specific technical background – he was previously director general of the Navy's Nuclear and Technological Development.

Only two of the officers – Mourão and Theophilo – are active in social networks. A third, General Santa Rosa, who will succeed the Secretariat for Strategic Affairs (SAE), is often featured through articles on blogs and specialized websites. The others are called "strategists": they generally badyze the scenario and dialogue in search of results.

In addition, two civilians with military experience will lead ministries: the engineer graduated from the Institute of Military Engineering (EMI), Tarcisio Gomes de Freitas, will direct the infrastructure and the military. Institute, the military institute, Ricardo Vélez-Rodríguez, will be responsible for education.

Air Force Reserve Lieutenant-Colonel Marcos Pontes, fighter pilot and astronaut, will lead the Science and Technology activities.

According to the sociologist and professor of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) Adriano Codato, who studies Brazilian political formation after the 1988 Constitution, the choice of the army for executive power results from two factors:

1. the fact that the PSL, party Bolsonaro, "is small and without structure"
2. symbolic dimension of a "convocation to the armed forces".

In the second round of elections, the candidate had always promised that if he was elected, he would choose the first step on technical criteria, without interference from political parties, as well as criteria such as "competence, authority , patriotism and initiative ". .

"The armed forces tend to function at this stage as" neutral "," impartial "and" technical "substitutes for professional politicians constantly involved in corruption scandals, mythology buried since the end of the war. dictatorship, restores that the army would, par excellence, "a disinterested official," says Codato.

For the researcher, it is impossible to predict the impact of the performance of so many officers First step "The armed forces, as a society and as individuals, have long been distant from the administrative elite of the Brazilian state. Perhaps the most important risk is not the interference of the military in the executive, but an interference in the opposite direction of the executive and, therefore, party politics and economic interests in the armed forces. It is impossible today to predict how much this inverted route can influence the armed forces, "he said.

Codato points out that the President of the Republic has 23,000 free appointment posts and that 39, it is "impossible to speak here of a" militarization "of the public administration." It is necessary not to confuse the presence of the army in front of important ministries with the militarization of the 'public administration ".

The political scientist Alcindo Gonçalves, of the Catholic University of Santos, understands that it is not possible to compare the "military core" of the Bolsonaro government to the presence of officers commanding the country in the regime imposed in 1964.

"The appointment of the army is different from a government of the armed forces, a power exercised by the armed forces, while generals, admirals and active brigades represented the armed forces at the head of the executive, "he said.

Gonçalves also says that, although elected by Bolsonaro from the reserve, there occurs "a major change in Brazilian politics". "We now have a government composed of military, elected civilians and military figures chosen for their qualities, merits and experiences, according to Bolsonaro himself, but who bring cultural values ​​that represent a military posture", says the specialist .

"We can not think that the army is a rare bird, they have an apprenticeship that can contribute to the public service, what can not be there is to mix the ideas of the military tradition with the 'interference of political conduct', the professor emphasizes.

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