Army General Army general or General of the army is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System. Army general is normally the highest rank used in peacetime. In countries that adopt the general officer fou ...

José Elito Carvalho Siqueira is a Brazilian

Army general Army general or General of the army is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System. Army general is normally the highest rank used in peacetime. In countries that adopt the general officer fou ...

, former Chief-Minister of the

Institutional Security Cabinet The Institutional Security Bureau (, GSI; English language, English: ''Institutional Security Bureau of the Presidency of the Republic'', ISB) is an Cabinet of Brazil, executive cabinet office of the federal government of Brazil responsible for ...

of the Presidency of the Republic.

Military career

Graduated as infantry Aspirant in 1969, in the

Agulhas Negras Military Academy The Military Academy of Agulhas Negras (, AMAN – named after the Agulhas Negras summit) is the biggest school of formation of combatant officers of the Brazilian Army. It originated in 1792 with the creation of the Royal Academy of Artillery, ...

(AMAN) and has exercised numerous prominent functions, as Command of MINUSTAH and as Southern Military Commander, which he was in office between 15 August 2007 and 28 November 2008.

Political career

He was promoted to the current rank on 31 July 2007 and chosen Minister of State Chief of the Institutional Security Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic by President-elect

Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the ...

on 21 December 2010. After taking office as new Chief-Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet, Elito stood up against the creation of a Truth Committee to investigate human rights violations during the military regime, claiming that no one should be "seeing thing from the past". Also said that "if today our children and grandchildren study in a school, the 31 March will be there as a historical fact. We should see the 31 March as a historical data for the nation, with pros and cons, mas as a historical data. The same way the disappeared ones". In an interview, said that the existence of political disappeared is not a shame for the country. Dilma Rousseff, who was tortured during the regime, reprimanded the general, that apologized, alleging that he was misunderstood in his press statements. On 2 December 2015, in Dilma's ministry reform, Siqueira was fired and the Security Cabinet was merged to the Secretariat of Government, created in that day and assumed by Ricardo Berzoini.

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