‘It cost me many friendships’: former Brazil military chief reveals inside struggle to stop Bolsonaro’s coup
Former Brazilian army chief Carlos de Almeida Baptista Júnior says he and other senior officers tried to block a coup attempt by President Jair Bolsonaro in 2022. In his new memoir, he recounts a tense meeting where Bolsonaro’s son sought to influence the election, while former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prepared to run again. The book details the internal military conflict.