Brazil: Bolsonaro fires key moderate who warned of dangers of 'extremism'

• Government secretary Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz forced out
• News comes as scandal swirls around justice minister Moro

Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has sacked one of the most prominent moderates in his administration for reportedly failing to ideologically align himself with his commander-in-chief’s radical creed.

Gen Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, Bolsonaro’s secretary of government, had repeatedly locked horns with the president’s crotchety US-based guru, Olavo de Carvalho, and was reportedly relieved of his duties on Thursday afternoon.

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