Bolsonaro removes heads of Armed Forces

President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of the three commanders of the Armed Forces: Edson Leal Pujol (Army), Ilques Barbosa Júnior (Navy) and Antonio Carlos Bermudez (Air Force). The ousting of the military came one day after the sacking of the Minister of Defense, Fernando Azevedo e Silva, and happens at a moment of fragility of the government amid the worsening of the pandemic, the economic deterioration and the loss of support. Mr. Bolsonaro's gesture raises the tension about the risk of politicization of the Armed Forces, and even of a decree of...

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