RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Monday, March 29, Brazil's Minister of Defense, General Fernando Azevedo e Silva, left the position he had held since the beginning of 2019. He was replaced by General Walter Braga Netto. The next day, the new holder of the portfolio released his first official statement: a text about March 31, the date that marks 57 years of the event that history calls a military coup.
Braga Netto says, in his note, that on that day, "the Armed Forces ended up assuming the responsibility to pacify the country" and that the Amnesty Law of 1979 . . .
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