{"id":1576996,"date":"2022-07-28T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576996"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:09:05","slug":"pentagon-chief-confident-brazil-military-will-respect-october-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-chief-confident-brazil-military-will-respect-october-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon chief confident Brazil military will respect October election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-chief-confident-brazil-military-will-respect-october-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576996&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2731561\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2731561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2731561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP22207569645614.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the XV Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. (AP Photo\/Eraldo Peres)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2731561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the XV Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. (AP Photo\/Eraldo Peres)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:45 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 28, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is confident Brazil\u2019s military will not interfere with the results of the South American nation\u2019s upcoming presidential election. During a press conference in Brasilia on Wednesday, the US official said Brazil\u2019s armed forces are focused on providing security to ensure a safe and transparent election this October.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Brazilin President Jair Bolsonaro has publicly cast doubt on the country\u2019s electronic voting system, in turn, raising concerns he may refuse to accept a potential defeat. According to reports, Bolsonaro has went as far as to suggest \u201conly God\u201d could remove him from his presidential post.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cDuring our engagement, the Brazilian minister of defense commented very early on that he was very focused on providing security to ensure that they were able to conduct a safe, secure and transparent election,\u201d Austin stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also today in Brazil: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the military must be under the control of civilians during a conference in Brasilia. President Jair Bolsonaro has expressed his desire to have the armed forces \u201coverseeing\u201d October\u2019s election<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Carvalho (@danielcarvalho_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielcarvalho_\/status\/1552136022770720768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The US Defense Secretary also emphasized the need for Brazil\u2019s military to be in firm civilian control. Meanwhile, Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any intention for a coup in the country.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/protesters-storm-iraqs-parliament\/\">Protesters Storm Iraq\u2019s Parliament<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the XV Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. (AP Photo\/Eraldo Peres) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 12:45 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 28, 2022 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is confident Brazil\u2019s military will not interfere with the results of the South American nation\u2019s upcoming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}