‘It cost me many friendships’: former Brazil military chief reveals inside struggle to stop Bolsonaro’s coup
- The far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro was in his final days as Brazil’s president when, six weeks after losing the election and still refusing to recognise the result, he summoned the heads of the armed forces to a meeting.
- The defence minister, Gen Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira, took out a document from a plastic folder and handed copies to the commanders of the navy, army and air force.
- It was a draft decree proposing to invalidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s election in October 2022 and keep Bolsonaro in power.
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- The far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro was in his final days as Brazil’s president when, six weeks after losing the election and still refusing to recognise the result, he summoned the heads of the armed forces to a meeting.
- The defence minister, Gen Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira, took out a document from a plastic folder and handed copies to the commanders of the navy, army and air force.
- It was a draft decree proposing to invalidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s election in October 2022 and keep Bolsonaro in power.
Sources: Guardian