Itamaraty sent a visa request on Tuesday to the US Embassy Alexandre Padilha. Last week, the US government canceled the visas of the minister of the minister’s wife and daughter, as part of the sanctions to Brazilian authorities.
Padilha did not have a visa repealed, because the authorization for him to enter the US has been overcome since 2024.
The minister was invited to participate in the Conference of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UN General Assembly in New York in September.
On Tuesday, Padilha stated that he had not yet decided to attend UN and PAH events due to agenda conflicts. But he said that if he chooses to go, his entry to the US should be secured by international agreements. “In relation to both UN and PAHO has the so -called headquarters agreement. No country in the world can prevent the access of an invited authority,” he said.
Padilha justified that his schedule is troubled due to internal commitments. “The difficulty of leaving Brazil is because of the voting in the National Congress, service, and also (agendas) of ‘now there are experts.’ I have no decision yet whether I will be able to participate or not, but if you will participate, certainly with the headquarters agreement has to allow (the entry of the invited authority,” he said.
Itamaraty, however, says that a specific visa for events in these organisms is required.
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Visas canceled because of ‘Mais Médicos’
Two days before the revocation of Padilha’s wife and daughter, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, head of Donald Trump government diplomacy, revoked the visas of the Secretary of Specialized Health Care Care Mozart Júlio Tabosa Sales, and Alberto Kleiman, a former Brazilian government employee.
As a reason for the measure, Rubio cited the program “Mais Médicos”, a public policy created in the government of Dilma Rousseff to supply the lack of doctors in the municipalities of the interior and in the peripheries of large cities in Brazil. Padilha was the Minister of Health when the program was launched in 2013.
After the US government measure, Padilha called Trump a “enemy of health.”
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“We are not just facing the tariff. We are facing in the figure of the current US president, a health enemy. Since the beginning of his government, he has been attacks on world health as a whole,” said the minister.
