Lula cancels the trip and summons the military leaders after revealing the involvement of a senior officer in the coup plot
An army general staff officer was involved in a plan to prevent Lula da Silva from taking office and keep Jair Bolsonaro in power.
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On a tense day of political turmoil in Brasilia, President Lula da Silva at the last minute on Friday canceled a trip he was taking to two states in mid-west and north Brazil and summoned the minister for an emergency meeting. and José Museo Montero and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva. The subject that prompted the cancellation and the meeting was Veja magazine’s report this weekend that an army general staff officer had been implicated in a plan devised in December last year to prevent the then president’s inauguration. Electing Lula da Silva and keeping the presidential loser, Jair Bolsonaro, in power.
The existence of a plot by people very close to Jair Bolsonaro, including retired military personnel or working people who hold political positions in the government, to carry out a coup is nothing new, morning mailFor example, already on May 5, the participation of Bolsonaro’s aide, lieutenant colonel on active duty, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, in preparing for this democratic break, was already progressing. The novelty now presented by the magazine which caused such a stir in Brasília was the discovery of the involvement of another high-ranking official on active duty in the Army, and of the General Staff, Colonel Jean Lound Jr., in this conspiracy. who in the messages revealed by the post is pressuring Cid to quickly launch a coup d’état to “save” Brazil from Lula.
A soldier with a remarkable career in the Armed Forces, Loand continues to this day to sit in on Senior Corps Command meetings as coordinator of the Army’s Office of Special Projects, and was recently appointed to an important position. In Washington, USA, as Brazil’s representative on a missile-related project of his competence. This created enormous apprehension and annoyance in Lula and made him decide to cancel all of his Friday appointments and call up Múcio and Tomás Paiva.
The Minister and the General, who were taking part in a military event in Brasilia, as soon as they were summoned, hastily left before the hour and went to meet Lula, with whom they talked for more than an hour and a half. Lula, very excited, demanded firm and urgent action against Lawand, whom he considered a great danger to the stability of the armed forces and democracy because of the high level at which he operates within the army.
In response to the Head of State’s order, the first action announced hours later by the military, usually too discreet and slow to punish officers, was to revoke the colonel’s appointment to office in the United States. At the end of Friday afternoon, early in the evening in Lisbon, it was also reported that an internal investigation had already been launched against the colonel, in the letters exchanged with Bolsonaro’s aide, in addition to defending the coup of the state, to encourage the army’s rebellion against the generals of the high command to the army if they do not abide by the project to turn Bolsonaro into a dictator and keep him in power indefinitely.
