Brazil's Lula loses 1st minister after images during riot

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Brazil’s Lula loses 1st minister after images during riot

By MAURICIO SAVARESE
April 19, 2023

SAO PAULO (AP) — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lost his first Cabinet member Wednesday after surveillance video showed the man present in the presidential palace as rioters trashed the building Jan. 8 while demanding the president’s ouster.

Lula’s communications secretariat wrote on Twitter that Gen. Marcos Edson Gonçalves Dias had been removed as head of the Cabinet of institutional security, which provides security for the president.

He was replaced by Ricardo Capelli, who had been security chief for Brasilia in the aftermath of the Jan. 8 uprising.

Images broadcast by CNN Brasil earlier Wednesday showed Dias milling about and opening doors rather than arresting invaders that day. The video also shows another official shaking hands with a group of rioters and giving a thumbs-up to another, all of whom supported Lula’s predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.

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[2naSalit]

1. As we can see...

From the way things are here, it tales a while to find them all.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's essential they found out. So wrong he continued as head of security!

Such an dishonest, underhanded man.







Pretending to stand in good relationship to Lula.