Political crisis in Brazil, "Bolsonaro stirs up chaos"

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro renews part of his government.

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By: Florent Guignard

9 mins

In Brazil, the heads of the three forces of the air force, Antonio Carlos Bermuda, land, Edson Pujol and the navy, Ilques Barbosa resigned, Tuesday March 30, following the cabinet reshuffle of the day before and particularly to the ousting of their supervisory minister Fernando Azevido e Silva.

On the eve of the 57th anniversary of the military coup and a year and a half before the next election, how will the president come out of the crisis?

Analysis by Maud Chirio, historian, lecturer at Gustave Eiffel University, specialist in contemporary Brazil.   

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Maud Chirio

is the author of

Politics in Uniform, the Brazilian Experience (1960-1980)

, at the

Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

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