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Goulart called the whole blowup a "campaign which certain interests are carrying out against the government under the pretext of disclosing scandals in companies that belong to the people's patrimony. What they want is to destroy Petrobras. I believe in the defense of Petrobras." As part of that defense, he fired the company's three directors and its crusading President Silva. To replace Silva, Goulart chose Marshal Osvino Alves, 66, an old friend and former chief of Brazil's first army —who took over as the eighth president of Petrobras in ten years.