Priscilla Mazenotti and Carolina Pimentel
Reporters - Agencia Brasil

Brasilia – Brazil’s Vice President and Minister of Defense, José Alencar, submitted to the United Nations (UN) a second name for the position of Commander of the United Nations Peace Mission in Haiti: General Jannot Jansen da Silva Filho. The first indication was of General José Elito Siqueira.

Jansen is Vice Chief of the Army’s Department of Logistics in Brasilia.

The UN will choose between the two names, who will be in charge of the mission. José Alencar affirmed that both generals are in the same level and prepared to carry out an efficient job.

Alencar participated on the memorial service to honor General Urano Bacellar, who was found dead last Saturday (7), in the hotel he lived, in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also participated on the service.

The General’s body was taken to Rio de Janeiro for burial.

Translation: Andréa Alves