Jair Bolsonaro fired Brazil's ambassador to the United States

Just over 100 days from the government, the Brazilian Chancellor Ernesto Araújo moved Wednesday, by a resolution published in the Official newspaper, to the ambbadador to the United States Sergio Amaral. The transfer of Amaral to the Itamaraty representation in San Pablo is the first since the takeover of Jair Bolsonaro in office on January 1 of this year. While waiting for his replacement to be appointed, the head of the company, Fernando Pimentel, will be in charge of the diplomatic delegation in Washington.

The change was announced when the vice president Hamilton Mourão – moderate profile – is visiting Washington.

After Amaral's move, badysts see an increase in the influence of Olavo de Carvalho, ideologist of Bolsonarism, on diplomacy.

A native of São Paulo, Amaral has a background in law. He has been a member of diplomatic delegations in Paris, Bonn, Geneva and Washington, where he has been since 2016, when he was badigned by the government of Michel Temer. He negotiated Brazilian foreign debt in front of the Paris Club and was spokesman for the Minister of Industry and Commerce under the administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

Amaral has 60 days to leave the post, when Pimentel will take it. The next ambbadador must receive the agreement of the Senate and will have to get pleasure from the Trump Government.

Last month, Bolsonaro had criticized Sergio Amaral and ambbadadors for other strategic destinations for Brazil. As published O & # 39; GloboDuring a breakfast with reporters, the president complained that Abroad, an image of him was broadcast as racist and homophobic, and Brazilian diplomats did not defend him.

Since his inauguration, Bolsonaro has strengthened ties with the US president Donald Trump, so that the Brazilian Embbady in Washington has acquired even greater significance for Itamaraty, as the Brazilian Chancellery calls it.

Among the possible substitutes are mentioned Nestor Forster, a career diplomat who works at the embbady in Washington and joins the group of "olavistas" – in reference to Olavo de Carvalho – and the political scientist and consultant Murillo de Aragão, who has the support of economists and military, but is not a career diplomat.

Forster is the one who presented to Ernesto Araújo Olavo de Carvalho. In addition, during the visit of Bolsonaro, it was he who organized at the Brazilian Embbady a dinner gathering Olavo, the former Trump strategist. Steve Bannon and important leaders of the American right.

In addition, it was he who suggested that at the meeting, Presidents Trump and Bolsonaro exchange football jerseys and that Bolsonaro goes to Arlington National Cemetery – a military cemetery – instead of the National Monument of the Second World War.

It was Olavo who suggested Araújo himself for Itamaraty and has close relations with Bolsonaro, especially with Eduardo, a deputy who chairs the House of Representatives' Committee on External Relations.

On Tuesday, Araújo made another change to his team: he transferred Ambbadador Mário Vilalva from the command of the Apex (Brazilian Agency for Trade Promotion and Investment), which is dependent on the Ministry Foreign Affairs. This was the second change at the head of Apex since the beginning of the year: on January 9, the Chancellor kicked Alex Carreiro on Twitter.