Meeting on coup d’état held at Braga Netto’s residence
Brazil´s Federal Police discovered that one of the meetings discussing the coup plot to prevent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's inauguration and assassinate him, vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and Justice Alexandre de Moraes was held at General Braga Netto's residence on November 12, 2022.During former President Jair Bolsonaro's administration, Braga Netto served as his Chief of Staff and was the vice-presidential candidate on the re-election ticket in 2022.The intelligence report on operation Contragolpe (“Counter-Coup”), reveals that on November 12, 2022, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cesar Cid, then-Major Rafael de Oliveira, and Lieutenant Colonel Ferreira Lima gathered at the residence of General Walter Souza Braga Netto.The operation was launched on Tuesday, Nov. 19, to arrest...