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[RESUMO] The anti-Marxist mission of the future Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo, was received with surprise by the colleagues of Itamaraty
In August 2013, invited to talk about the relations between Brazil and the States United States as part of an event organized by a study center in Washington, Ernesto Araújo began by paying homage to the poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892), father of free verse. and a pillar of American literature.
The diplomat recited a poem written by Whitman when he became acquainted with the Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil in 1889. The monotonous intonation and the eyes fixed on the papers in which he collected his notes, Brazilian ", says the text. "You have learned the true lesson of the light of a nation in the sky."
Araújo said that the first flag adopted by the new government in Brazil was a copy of the American and He recalled that the official name of the country, then the United States of Brazil, was almost identical to that of the US Citing the writer of Gaucho, Vianna Moog (1906-1988), he said the Brazilians still saw themselves as a failure, unable to make progress similar to that of American society.
Araújo, which was Brazil's second embbady to the world Washington pointed out that the country was going through a different phase, partly thanks to the efforts of the government Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) to play a more badertive role on the international scene.
"Brazil's vocation to be a great country and to be one of the largest is a powerful political concept, not just rhetoric," said the diplomat. "It's an idea that has survived through the generations and is now bearing fruit."
Araújo showed on the big screen of the event a cartoon scene in which Ze Carioca and Donald Duck kissed and talked about communion.
Ernesto Araújo described by many diplomats who have known him during his 29-year career at Itamaraty is similar to that of Brazilian and American. a retired official, discreet and trained to defend the country he represents without creating confusion.
To the amazement of his colleagues who worked with him, a very different character appeared in recent months, when Araújo acted quickly to ensure the appointment of President-elect, Jair Bolsonaro (PSL), to head the ministry Foreign Affairs
In the blog of Metapolítica 17, which he created in the final stretch of the electoral race, Araújo introduces himself as someone who wants to "help Brazil and the world to get together." liberating from globalist ideology ", described as an" anti-human and anti-Christian system "whose purpose would be" to break the bond between God and man, by making man slave and God unimportant. "
On the eve of the first round of the election, after accompanying a support team to Bolsonaro in Brasilia, Araújo called the campaign" love and hope ".
Araújo had an illustrious godfather in the ranks of Bolognese, the writer Olavo de Carvalho, a conservative thinker who lives in the United States and has many followers of social networks. According to Olavo, they met about a year ago, that is when the diplomat had already finished his season in Washington and was working in Brazil.
"A friend came here and brought it," Olavo told Leaf in November. "It was a guy I wanted to meet." I started reading his articles on the blog, "I was very impressed by the culture of this type, which far exceeds the average Brazilian diplomats." the media, no one talks about it. "A year ago, the Araujo blog did not exist.
Diplomats who have worked with Araújo at different times in his career speak well of him as a colleague and professional, but, protected by anonymity, they say they are confused by the facets of their relationship. personality revealed now. Araújo avoided journalists and did not respond to an interview request.
Gaucho of Porto Alegre, 51 years old, entered Itamaraty in 1989, just out of the course of letters of the University of Brasilia. It was ninth place in the contested contest for the Rio Branco Institute, which accepted 24 candidates this year. As soon as he graduated, he went to work at the Department of Regional Integration, which at the time was involved in the creation of Mercosur, the block created by Brazil with the following year. Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
"He was one of my best students in Rio Branco," said Ambbadador Sérgio Florêncio, Araújo's first boss in Itamaraty, now retired . "He wrote very well and was able to quickly master the economic problems of someone who was trained in French letters."
They write together a book on Mercosur, which will later be the subject of the thesis presented by Araújo to Itamaraty to guarantee its promotion. Adviser to the post of second clbad minister in 2008. Revealed by the Nexo website in November, the brief categorically defends the regional economic bloc and foreign policy adopted after Lula and the PT came to power.
point in the opposite direction to Araújo's more recent writings, such as the article he published in the Gazeta do Povo newspaper, Paraná, shortly after his appointment to the Chancellor. In this text, he states that his mission will be to "put an end to the ideology of foreign policy" and to "liberate Itamaraty" from Marxism and "the ideology of the PT".
Washington was the most important diplomatic post of Araújo. He stayed in the US capital between 2010 and 2015 and led the Brazilian mission as a business executive for a few months, while Ambbadador Mauro Vieira was urged by President Dilma Rousseff to take the lead. direction of the ministry.
"I've always seemed to be a competent and discreet official," says Nicholas Zimmerman, former White House collaborator, one of Araújo's key interlocutors in the US government. and who is now working as a consultant. "He has never expressed personal opinions as strong as now."
In February 2015, a few weeks before his return to Brazil, Araujo defended the Dilma government during a debate with economists in Washington. The president was at the start of his second term and was trying to reverse his economic policy, ignoring the promises he made during the campaign for his re-election.
"No set of policies can work forever," said the diplomat at the event. "Some work, one day they stop working and you have to look for something else." For example, he mentioned the interventionist policies supported by the PT. "That does not mean that it was wrong before," he added.
After the dismissal of Dilma, Araújo continued to climb the steps of Itamaraty's career and badumed the leadership of the Department of Relations with the United States and Canada. He reached the summit in June of this year, when he was promoted to first clbad minister and won the ambbadadorial title even without leading positions overseas.
In 2017, shortly after the election of Donald Trump, and he wrote an essay in which he praised the US president – according to him, the only leader in the world able to save the fundamental values of the United States. West and save it from the ruins imposed by the "globalists".
The article was published by a magazine sponsored by Itamaraty at the end of the year and fell into the taste of Olavo de Carvalho, who made propaganda on social networks. Written when Bolsonaro took seriously, the text did not catch the attention until after the appointment of Araújo to the post of Chancellor.
This was an uncomfortable discovery for many colleagues, but the one who had watched carefully could have met the darkest face of the diplomat. From 1998 to 2001, in the middle of his career, Araújo published three fiction works by a small publisher in São Paulo, Alfa-Omega.
"The Gate of Mogar" (1998) has as protagonist a warrior in an imaginary country, divided between a disinherited princess and the priestess of a decadent cult, according to the synopsis offered by Araújo at the time . "Xarab Fica" (1999) deals with conflicts in another fantastic country.
Araújo was less than 40 years old when he wrote the books, but they remained a source of pride for a long time,
"I find it rather stifling to think that we live in a country that offers no more surprises and where it is forbidden to pursue adventures, "he said in an interview granted to the publishing house at the origin of the publication of the book. second book. "Inventing countries, it's my way to open a window and breathe a little."
Ricardo Balthazar is a special journalist of Folha . He was the editor of Power and Market.
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