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Caribbean-Latin America
Busy first week for Brazil's Bolsonaro
2018-11-04
[PULSE.NG] Bolsonaro, who wants to slash the number of ministries from 29 to 15, has announced five cabinet picks so far, mostly political outsiders. Aides say 80 percent of the cabinet is already lined up.

-- Ultra-free market economist Paulo Guedes will head a "super ministry" combining the finance, planning, industry and trade portfolios.

-- Bolsonaro's military academy instructor, General Augusto Heleno, will be defense minister.

-- Astronaut Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian in space, will be science minister.

-- Crusading anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro will be justice minister.

-- Seeking to balance the political inexperience of the rest, veteran politician Onyx Lorenzoni will be chief of staff.

Bolsonaro has gotten bogged down in controversy and backpedaling as he forms his government.

The president-elect's solution to all things economic is to put business world hero Guedes in charge -- but some warn his new "super ministry" is so big it will be "impossible to manage," as financial newspaper Valor put it.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Bolsonaro's announcement that he will move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem will put him at odds with the tens of thousands of Hizbollah who have settled in the Foz de Iguacu region and Parana state. His other enemies are legion, and the fact that an assassin could get close enough to stab him is worrisome.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2018-11-04 08:18  

#5  WHINSEC formerly - U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) was founded in 1946.

Brazilian army lieutenant colonel at Fort Benning named US Army TRADOC's educator of year

FORT BENNING, Ga. (May 17, 2018) -- Brazilian army Lt. Col. Rafael Novaes, an instructor of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation's Command and General Staff Officer Course, won against U.S. Army educators across the globe to be named the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Educator of the Year for 2017. That means he is considered the best educator in the U.S. Army.

Some tough ombres.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-11-04 03:05  

#4  I got your back, Brother.
This is going to be a very good thing for Brazil.

You are and always have been a mature audience. I need desperate help with South America and you are it.

May GOD Hold you, Bless you and Keep you Brazil!

You have Chosen Wisely!
Posted by: newc   2018-11-04 01:41  

#3  Thank you TW. You are a treasure.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-11-04 01:32  

#2  Some of the nicest people comment on Rantburg! Thank you for that perspective, Ulaigum Ebbineng7056.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-11-04 01:23  

#1  Brazil's military people are good people. I know some of them. They are disciplined, hard nosed, work hard and you don't mess with them.

A large city on the Amazon is not the cleanest, graffiti is every where. Until you drive past a walled military base/fortress in that city. There is no graffiti on the walls. Only towers every so often with guards in them holding chrome plated automatic weapons. The heavy chrome plating is there so people see those weapons glistening in the day light or night flood lights as a clear warning to any one who dares touch those walls.

The only people I saw near the walls on the outside was a stern looking sergeant standing over a privado (private) who was humbly picking blades of grass from between side walk panels one blade at a time. I truly believe "o privado" will not get into trouble again.

Capitão (Captain) Bolsonaro is exactly what S. America needs right now.

(An orphaned S. American jaguar raised by jungle warfare Brazilian military personnel on the Amazon.)

Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-11-04 01:17  

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