Brazil’s Lula changes leadership positions in the Armed Forces

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva changed several heads of leadership positions involving the Armed Forces. The changes were published in this Thursday’s edition (25) of the Diário Oficial da União.

In addition to Lula, Minister José Múcio (Defense) signed the decree.

Read the list of changes:

• General Marcelo Lorenzini Zucco -brother of the CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) president of the MST, deputy Lieutenant Colonel Zucco (Republicans-RS)- has left the position of Commander of the 1st Jungle Infantry Brigade. The general will be attached to the Southern Military Command;
• General Ricardo José Nigri will take over as head of the Planning and Management Office of the Department of Science and Technology; he was previously executive secretary of the GSI (Institutional Security Cabinet) and left the post at the same time as former minister Marco Gonçalves Dias, in April;

  

• Air Brigadier Max Cintra Moreira has been appointed to the post of Chief of the Executive Governance Office of the Air Force Staff. He was also part of the GSI and was fired by Ricardo Cappelli, who took over the agency on an interim basis with Gonçalves Dias’ departure;
• General Marcelo Goñes Sabbá de Alencar will be the 2nd Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. He recently left the GSI;
• General Eduardo Antonio Fernandes leaves the post of logistic commander and will be a military advisor at the Permanent Mission of Brazil at the United Nations, in New York (USA), for 2 years;
• Air Brigadier Márlio Concidera Estebanez left the head of the Executive Governance Office of the Air Force Staff to take over as head of the Strategic Management Center of the Cyber Defense Command;
• Gen. Paulo Sergio Reis Filho will take over as commander of Army Communications and Electronic Warfare, leaving his position as head of the Cyber Defense Center;
  Gen. Paulo Edson Santa Barba leaves the head of the General Staff of the Eastern
• Military Command to become the commander of the 1st Jungle Infantry Brigade;
  Gen. Mario Eduardo Moura Sassone has been named Chief of Staff of the Eastern Military Command, leaving the command of the Operations Coordination Center of the same command;
• General Luís Carlos Soares de Sousa leaves the head of the Planning and Management Office of the Department of Science and Technology to become head of the Cyber Defense Center.

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