Priscilla Mazenotti
Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília - The UN has asked Brasilia to submit two names to substitute general Urano Bacellar, the former commander of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah) who was found dead in his hotel room on Saturday (January 7) with a gunshot wound to the head. On Monday (January 9) the Brazilian government nominated general José Elito Carvalho de Siqueira, a three-star general who commands Brazil's 6th Military Region in Salvador, Bahia, to be Bacellar's substitute.

"Our idea was to submit a single name, but the UN has requested a second. So we are going to send in another name," explained Jose Alencar, vice president and minister of Defense.

According to general Francisco Albuquerque, the Brazilian Army commander, the problem in Haiti is not just military. "It is social and economic, as well," he declared.

Translation: Allen Bennett