Walter Braga Netto | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2021 | |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 30 March 2021 – 1 April 2022 | |
President | Jair Bolsonaro |
Preceded by | Fernando Azevedo e Silva |
Succeeded by | Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira |
Chief of Staff of the Presidency | |
In office 18 February 2020 – 29 March 2021 | |
President | Jair Bolsonaro |
Preceded by | Onyx Lorenzoni |
Succeeded by | Luiz Eduardo Ramos |
Chief of the Brazilian Army General Staff | |
In office 29 March 2019 – 18 February 2020 | |
President | Jair Bolsonaro |
Preceded by | Paulo Humberto Cesar de Oliveira |
Succeeded by | Marcos Antonio Amaro dos Santos |
Federal intervenor in Rio de Janeiro | |
In office 18 February 2018 – 31 December 2018 | |
President | Michel Temer |
Governor | Luiz Fernando Pezão Francisco Dornelles (interim) |
Personal details | |
Born | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | 11 March 1957
Political party | PL (since 2022) |
Alma mater | Agulhas Negras Military Academy |
Military service | |
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Years of service | 1975–2020 |
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Walter Souza Braga Netto (born 11 March 1957) is a Brazilian army general and former Minister of Defence. Braga was Commander of the Eastern Military Command and, until 31 December 2018, Federal Interventor in the Public Security of the state of Rio de Janeiro.[1] He unsuccessfully ran for Vice President of Brazil as running mate of Jair Bolsonaro in 2022,[2] narrowly losing to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin.[3]