21 January 2023 at 20:02 Lula fires defense chief after storming Brazil’s president Lula da Silva has fired the head of the country’s defense forces, Julio Cesar de Arruda. This is reported by several Brazilian media and Reuters. Arruda, who took office on 28 December last year, was given less than one month in the job. He will be replaced by General Thomas Miguel Ribeiro Paiva, who leads the army’s forces in the South East. Lula said this week that the intelligence services failed on January 8, when government buildings in the capital Brasilia were stormed by Bolsonaro supporters.
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