Lula appoints ambassadors to the United Kingdom, Israel and Cuba; See who they are principle

President Lula (PT) appointed three new ambassadors from Brazil to the UK, Israel and Cuba. The nominations were published in this Wednesday’s (14th) edition of the Union’s official gazette. All names were reviewed and approved by the federal Senate in May.

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 United Nations (UN) and as the country’s ambassador to Italy and Egypt.

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.

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 the Bolsonaro government, Vargas was promoted to first-class minister, serving as head of the Special Advisory on International Relations in the Ministry of Mines and Energy.

At the end of the Bolsonaro government, he was appointed to the position of General Coordinator for the General Coordination of the Organization of American States (OAS).

The government also released the nominations of two diplomats for positions representing Brazil abroad. They are: