José Elito Carvalho Siqueira

Army General José Elito Carvalho Siqueira is a Brazilian military and former Chief-Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic.

Military career Siqueira graduated as infantry Aspirant in 1969 in the Agulhas Negras Military Academy (AMAN) and has exercised numerous functions, including as commanding military officer of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti(MINUSTAH) and as Southern Military Commander of the Brazilian Army between 15 August 2007 and 28 November 2008.

Political career Siqueira 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 on 21 December 2010.

After taking office as new Chief-Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet, Elito - as he is called in the Army - stood against the creation of the National Truth Commission to investigate human rights violations during the military regime, claiming that no one should be "looking things from the past".

In another interview, Siqueira said that the existence of political disappeared people is not a shame for the country. Dilma Rousseff, who was tortured during the regime, reprimanded the general, who 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 with the Secretariat of Government, created in that day and assumed by Ricardo Berzoini.

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