Lula: intelligence failed to alert on coup attempt
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said there was a failure of the government's intelligence services that did not alert him on the coup acts in Brasilia on January 8. "Here we have the Army intelligence, we have the GSI [Institutional Security Cabinet] intelligence, we have the Navy intelligence, we have the Air Force intelligence…the truth is that none of them warned the country’s president that this could happen," he said. The exclusive interview to the Globonews news channel, the first of this kind since Lula assumed his third term in office, was aired on Wednesday (Jan. 18). "If I had known on Friday (6) that 8,000 people were going to come here, I wouldn't have left Brasilia. I wouldn't have done it. I left because everything was very calm…we were still experiencing the joy of t...