President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appointed three new Brazilian ambassadors to the United Kingdom, Israel and Cuba. Nominations are published in this magazine. Fourth(14) of the Official Gazette of the Union. All names were reviewed and approved by the Senate in May. They are: Antônio Patriota (Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom), Frederico Mayer (Ambassador to Israel) and Cristian Vargas (Ambassador to Cuba). Check out the new ambassadors’ profiles:
Antonio Patriota
Antônio de Aguiar Patriota, 69, previously served as Brazil’s ambassador to the United States between 2007 and 2009, when Lula was president. Between 2011 and 2013, the diplomat was foreign minister during Dilma Rousseff’s government. In the following years, Patriota served as Brazil’s representative to the UN (United Nations) and as the country’s ambassador to Italy and Egypt.
Frederick Meyer
Frederico Salomão Duque Estrada Meyer is 70 years old and was head of Brazilian diplomacy in Kazakhstan and Morocco during the PT government. Mayer has also held diplomatic missions in Iraq, Switzerland, Cuba, Guyana, Russia and the United Nations.
Christian Vargas
Cristian Vargas is 55 years old and the Director of the Regional Coordination Department of the Interim Secretariat for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has worked at Brazilian embassies in the United States and Russia. During Jair Bolsonaro’s government, Vargas was promoted to First Class Minister and served as head of the Special Counsel for International Relations at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. At the end of the Bolsonaro government, he was appointed to the position of General Coordinator of the OAS (Organization of American States).
Other appointments
The government also released the nominations of two diplomats for positions representing Brazil abroad. They are: Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota (Permanent Representative of Brazil to the World Trade Organization and other Economic Organizations) and Leonardo Cleaver d’Atheid (Ambassador General of Brazil in Munich, Germany.
Source: South
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