Delfim Netto, economic tsar of Brazil's military government, dies at 96

Brazil's former Finance and Planning Minister Antonio Delfim Netto gestures as he attends an interview with Reuters in Sao Paulo July 15, 2013. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Antonio Delfim Netto, one of Brazil's most prominent economists who was the economics tsar of the military government in the 1970s and 1980s, died on Monday at the age of 96.

His office said he died after a week in hospital "due to complications in his health condition."