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EleanorR

(2,395 posts)
Sat Jul 13, 2019, 09:44 AM Jul 2019

So Bolsonaro wants to appoint his son ambassador to the US

Brazilian diplomats have reacted with scorn and dismay to reports that Jair Bolsonaro wants to make his son Eduardo the country’s ambassador to the US, despite his lack of diplomatic experience.

“Most of my colleagues are perplexed and in shock,” said a source at Brazil’s foreign ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Not less because it’s a case of nepotism … But also because he does not have the qualifications for the job.”


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“He’s friends with Donald Trump’s children, speaks English and Spanish and has great experience in the world,” he said, according to the Folha de S Paulo newspaper. On Friday Bolsonaro said the appointment would not constitute nepotism. “That’s for the supreme court to decide. It is not nepotism, I would never do that,” Bolsonaro said

That argument has failed to convince many in Brazil. “If it’s confirmed, the nomination will bring Brazil closer to becoming a banana republic,” wrote Bernardo Mello Franco in his blog for Rio’s O Globo newspaper.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/12/bolsonaro-son-eduardo-us-ambassador-diplomats-response

Despotic daddies do like to give their kids jobs they're not qualified for, don't they?
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