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Born on May 17 1937, in the city of São Paulo (SP), Albuquerque studied at the Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais (Officer Improvement School), in 1969, and graduated from the Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército (Army Staff Command School) in 1977. He commanded the Second Self-Propelled Artillery Company group headquartered in Itu (SP). An Economics graduate, he was deputy secretary for Army General Leônidas Pires Gonçalves. In the then Army minister’s cabinet, he held the positions of head of the Third Advisory and deputy head of the cabinet.
Head of the Brazilian Army Commission and adjunct military attaché in Washington (USA); Army Staff cabinet head; commander of the 11th Armored Infantry Brigade; coordinator of the Military Observer Mission in the Ecuador/Peru conflict Peace Process; Army Staff deputy head; general secretary for the Army; head of the General Service Department, and Information Technology Secretary.
Albuquerque was promoted to his current rank on March 31 2000. When named to be the Army commander, he held the position of military commander for the Southeast, headquartered in São Paulo city.
He was decorated, among other medals, with the Military Merit Order, Naval Merit Order, Air Force Merit Order, Armed Forces Merit Order, Military Judiciary Order, the Rio Branco Order, the Gold Military Medal with Platinum Bodkin, the Peacemaker Medal, the Tamandaré Merit Medal, with the Santos Dumont Merit Medal and, also, with the Amazon Service Medal.
He also received the following foreign decorations: Ecuador Armed Forces Star Medal; Joint Unity Merit and Merit Service Medals, both from the United States of America; and with the Peruvian Cross Military Merit medal.
Albuquerque was elected member of Petrobras and Petrobras Distribuidora’s Board of Directors on April 2 2007. | 