Tag: army

Brazil Sends Over 1,000 Soldiers to Favela to Retrieve Stolen Rifles

Brazilian security forces, backed by tanks and helicopters, have carried out an operation to ...

Brazil Deploys an Extra 3.500 Troops to Colombian Border

Citing concerns with drug trafficking in the Amazon, Brazil is dispatching 3,500 Army soldiers ...

Brazil’s Army Chief Calls His Men Warriors of Peace in Haiti

At a ceremony honoring general Urano Bacellar, the commander of the UN Stabilization Mission ...

Brazilian Congressman Calls for Withdrawal of Troops from Haiti

Brazil’s House Representative Orlando Fantazzini  suggested the withdrawal of Brazilian soldiers from Haiti. Fantazzini ...

Brazilian Soldiers Get Vocational Training

Brazilian federal government’s Soldier Citizen project should train over 18.6 thousand members of the ...

Brazilian Army Frees Kidnapped Haitian Officer

As the United Nations mission battled attacks and abductions in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, a ...

150 Brazilian Army Engineers to Rebuild Haiti’s Infrastructure

A Brazilian Army’s engineering company, integrated by 150 military officers, will embark on June ...

Haiti Gets 280 Army and Navy Troops from Brazil

A Brazilian military contingent of 280 troops embarked today to join the United Nations ...

Army and Navy Officers Join Brazil’s 1,200-Strong Military Force in Haiti

A group of 30 Army and Navy officers embarked May 25 to Port-au-Prince, capital ...

Haiti to Be Under Brazil’s Troops Watch One More Year

Brazilian troops may remain in Haiti another year, until the presidential elections in December, ...