The new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Mauro Vieira, already intends in the first week after the inauguration of the elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on 1 January 2023, to replace the diplomatic personnel who have shown themselves in recent years as allies of Jair Bolsonaro.
Among them is the ambassador in Washington, Nestor Forster, who will be temporarily replaced by a charge d’affaires while the next person to represent the Brazilians on American soil will be chosen, as learned by the Brazilian newspaper ‘O Globo’. Also dismissed will be the consul general in New York, Maria Nazareth Farani Azevedo, who was recently reproached for not having organized the security of the ministers of the Supreme Court in the most efficient way during their visit to this city, who were in a certain way harassed by Bolsonaro supporters.
Azevedo, who became chief of cabinet to former foreign minister Celso Amorim during Lula da Silva’s tenure, has been embroiled in various controversies during her long diplomatic career.
Vieira is also tasked by Lula da Silva to reactivate diplomatic relations with Venezuela, so it is expected that a business executive will be sent shortly after his inauguration to organize the reopening of the Brazilian embassy in Caracas.
“The government that has been elected is the government of Nicolás Maduro,” Vieira said earlier this month when asked about Juan Guaidó, who has lost any political weight he had, even among the opposition.
