Pilloried for his failed stint as Brazil's health minister and caught in the crosshairs of a Senate probe on the pandemic, General Eduardo Pazuello sought refuge last week before a friendly audience at a political rally in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and former Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello attend a rally at the National Monument to the Dead of World War II in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 23, 2021. REUTERS/StringerPilloried for his failed stint as Brazil’s health minister and caught in the crosshairs of a Senate probe on the pandemic, General Eduardo Pazuello sought refuge last week before a friendly audience at a political rally in Rio de Janeiro.
In the 10 days since Pazuello drew cheers at that rally alongside the president, the army has remained silent. "Some soldiers share in a personality cult and think every word Bolsonaro utters is a divine order, but there are not many," said Chagas, who campaigned on behalf of the president in 2018, in an interview at the army officer's club in Brasilia.
It is a distinction the far-right president seems eager to erase. After campaigning on nostalgia for Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has often referred to the armed forces as "my army" and suggested he could deploy them to defy state government lockdowns aimed at slowing the pandemic.
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