Rubio and Brazil’s foreign minister to meet after election tension, source says
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira spoke briefly at a Group of 20 foreign ministers’ meeting and agreed to meet in the coming weeks before a G20 leaders’ summit, a source familiar with the plans said.
A Brazilian official downplayed tensions over Brazil’s failure to approve US President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador and the re-election of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Vieira attended the G20 meeting, hosted by Rubio in Atlanta. The two ministers agreed to meet again before G20 leaders gather in Miami in December.
The plan for another meeting, first reported by Bloomberg, reflects efforts by both countries to move past disagreements over the ambassador’s visa and the US decision to grant a visa to Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro following his election defeat to Lula.
“We’re clearly not politicising the issue, as we haven’t in other situations regarding Brazilian citizens who have fled to the US,” the Brazilian official said.
A US official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters last week that Trump had no current plans to support Bolsonaro’s political ambitions, despite the administration allowing him into the country.
Flavio Bolsonaro’s father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is imprisoned in Brazil for attempting to remain in power after losing his re-election bid in 2022.
Credit: Reuters
